This investigation of 23 patients with the clinical syndrome of "primary biliary cirrhosis" was undertaken to elucidate the morphologic nature of the hepatic alterations, including their etiology ...
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic, cholestatic liver disease characterized by progressive destruction of intrahepatic bile ducts, resulting in chronic cholestasis, portal inflammation ...
Histology was classified according to METAVIR and the Ludwig's classification (F0-F4) for patients with chronic hepatitis C and B virus (HCV, HBV) infection and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC ...