title: Pattern of chronic liver disease in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. A hospital-based clinicopathological study.
abstract: During the period 1982-1990, 544 patients with clinical evidence of liver disease were admitted to King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Besides routine laboratory and sonographic investigations, all were subjected to either a needle liver biopsy, laparoscopy or a laparotomy. The tissue diagnoses were as follows: liver cirrhosis 17.3%, periportal fibrosis 14.3%, metastatic cancer 12.9%, primary hepatoma (hepatocellular carcinoma: HCC) 12.1%, hepatic granuloma 11.2%, chronic active hepatitis 7.7%, chronic persistent hepatitis 2.2%, fatty liver 7.2%, hydatid liver disease 4.6% and others 2.8%. In 7.7% the histology was normal. These results will be discussed and compared with results reported in local and international literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: al-Quorain
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Satti
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: al-Hamdan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: al-Gindan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khatib
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: al-Freihi
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology