title: Clinical study on latent cirrhosis of the liver.
abstract: Although the pathogenesis of liver cirrhosis is complex and not clearly understood, it can be assumed that the morphologic changes in the liver do not occur suddenly in a short space of time and that the morphogenesis goes on insidiously. Therefore, the physician discovers liver cirrhosis coincidentally during evaluation of some other unrelated disease in 20% of cirrhotic patients. Moreover, the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis is established initially at autopsy in 13.5-40% of the patients. The clinical aspect of these cases of latent cirrhosis of the liver was investigated and the patients in this category accounted for 30% of the cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000150:complications; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D065227:Transfusion Reaction
chemical_list: D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens