This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (34)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

II. Serial Histologic Studies

W. K. CHUNG, MD; S. K. MOON, MD; R. K. GERSHON, MD; A. M. PRINCE, MD; H. POPPER, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(4):535-542.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In the course of a survey of healthy Korean military personnel in an area where viral hepatitis is endemic, about 30 cases of anicteric hepatitis were detected. Their clinical and laboratory manifestations were described in the preceding paper.¹ It is the purpose of this report to describe the histologic changes based on three liver biopsies of each of the patients during a three-month period of observation, to describe the histologic evolution during the period of study, and finally to speculate on the relation between anicteric hepatitis and cirrhosis.

Materials and Methods

Thirty-two cases detected among clinically healthy military personnel by serum transaminase tests, as described in the preceding paper,¹ were submitted to serial liver biopsy during a period of up to three months' ambulatory hospitalization.

First biopsies were performed with a Menghini needle by the intercostal approach ² two to eight days after the initial SGPT test. A . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SEOUL, KOREA; ZAMA, JAPAN; NEW YORK

From the Department of Pathology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York; Korean Army Hepatitis Center, Capital Army Hospital, Seoul, Korea; and Department of Virus and Rickettsial Diseases, Medical General Laboratory (406), Army Medical Command, Japan, APO 343, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Received for publication Aug 21, 1963; accepted Nov 18.

Supported by research grant, DA-49-193-MD-2300, from the US Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army, Washington 25, DC.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?