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Hepatitis A-like non-A, non-B hepatitis: Light and electron microscopic observations of three cases

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To date, three types of NANBH have been distinguished by epidemiological, clinical and experimental data. We examined the liver biopsies of three patients with an acute NANBH resembling hepatitis A from the infection route, incubation period and clinical course. The liver biopsies revealed lesions with a portal and periportal predominance, thus also exhibiting parallels with hepatitis A on the histopathological level.

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The work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB 311

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Dienes, H.P., Hütteroth, T., Bianchi, L. et al. Hepatitis A-like non-A, non-B hepatitis: Light and electron microscopic observations of three cases. Vichows Archiv A Pathol Anat 409, 657–667 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00713431

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