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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

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Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a form of chronic obstructive non-suppurative granulomatous cholangitis. Females are afflicted eight times as often as males and the typical patient is in her fifth or sixth decade.

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Wight, D.G.D. (1993). Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. In: Atlas of Liver Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2212-2_17

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