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Common Medical Liver Diseases

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Liver Pathology for Clinicians

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Common medical disease affecting the liver include acute and chronic viral hepatitis, drug-induced liver injury, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, biliary obstruction, alcohol induced liver disease, non-alcohol fatty liver disease, hereditary hemochromatosis, Wilson disease, and α1-antitrypsin deficiency.

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O’Neil, M., Damjanov, I., Taylor, R.M. (2015). Common Medical Liver Diseases. In: Liver Pathology for Clinicians. Pathology for Clinicians. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20080-4_6

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