This investigation of 23 patients with the clinical syndrome of "primary biliary cirrhosis" was undertaken ... hepatic lesions are distinctive at any stage in their evolution and whether the ...

At early-stage ... by biliary tract stones, external tumor compression, or congenital biliary anomalies, is a common devastating liver dysfunction, resulting in liver toxicity, cirrhosis, and ...

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic ... and the anticentromere (ACA; Figure 4). ANA in PBC may be directed against the nuclear bodies (NB), the nuclear pore complex (NPC), centromeres ...