title: Classification of liver diseases by clinical chemical laboratory results and cluster analysis.
abstract: Patients with liver diseases were classified by cluster analysis using only clinical chemical laboratory results. A strong tendency towards correspondence between this classification, based on functional criteria, and the previous diagnoses, based mainly on liver biopsy findings, was found.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002624:Chemistry, Clinical; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D009626:Terminology as Topic