BILIARY CIRRHOSIS IN ADULTS: A STUDY BASED ON NEEDLE BIOPSY OF THE LIVER
Authors: E R MOVITT
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1956)

Article1 August 1956BILIARY CIRRHOSIS IN ADULTS: A STUDY BASED ON NEEDLE BIOPSY OF THE LIVERE. R. MOVITT, M.D., F.A.C.P.E. R. MOVITT, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-45-2-242 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptJaundice, while common to many different disorders, is also such a readily apparent indicator of disease that a mere glance at an icteric patient at once creates a diagnostic challenge. This challenge is sometimes fraught with great difficulties. Perhaps particularly intriguing are those problems which arise in connection with prolonged icterus which has lasted many months or even years. It is in this group of cases that our patients with biliary cirrhosis belong.The term "cirrhosis" is used, although it is not entirely appropriate for the category of diseases under consideration. If the diagnostic criteria of cirrhosis require demonstration in...Bibliography1. McCallum WG: A text-book of pathology, 7th Ed., 1940, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. Google Scholar2. ThannhauserMagendantz SJH: The different clinical groups of xanthomatous diseases: a clinical, physiological study of 22 cases, Ann. Int. Med. 11: 1662, 1938. LinkGoogle Scholar3. MacMahonThannhauser HESJ: Xanthomatous biliary cirrhosis (a clinical syndrome), Ann. Int. Med. 30: 121, 1949. LinkGoogle Scholar4. AhrensPayneKunkelEisenmengerBlondheim EHMAHGWJSH: Primary biliary cirrhosis, Medicine 29: 299, 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. Weech AA: Genesis of physiologic hyperbilirubinemia, Advances in Pediat. 2: 346, 1947. Google Scholar6. RickettsWissler WERW: Cholangiolitic biliary cirrhosis (primary biliary cirrhosis), Ann. Int. Med. 36: 1241, 1952. LinkGoogle Scholar7. RoholmKrarup KNB: Histopathology of liver in obstructive jaundice examined by aspiration biopsy, Acta med. Scandinav. 108: 48, 1941. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. WeisbrodSchiffGallClevelandBerman FGLEAFPJR: Needle biopsy of the liver. III. Experience in the differential diagnosis of jaundice, Gastroenterology 14: 56, 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar9. Rossle R: Entzündungen der Leber, in Henke, F., and Lubarsch, O.: Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1930, Julius Springer, Berlin. Google Scholar10. WeirSnell JFAM: Chronic hepatitis with jaundice (biliary cirrhosis), Am. J. Digest. Dis. 3: 629, 1936. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11. SnellGreeneRowntree AMCHLG: Diseases of the liver: further studies in experimental obstructive jaundice, Arch. Int. Med. 40: 471, 1927. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. GibsonRobertson WRHE: So-called biliary cirrhosis, Arch. Path. 28: 37, 1939. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Oakland, California*Received for publication January 30, 1956.From the Symposium on Recent Advances in Internal Medicine, presented in an abstract form at Letterman Army Hospital, San Francisco, November 3, 1955.From the Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Oakland, California.Requests for reprints should be addressed to E. R. Movitt, M.D., Veterans Administration Hospital, Thirteenth and Harrison Streets, Oakland-12, California.†The very rare type of biliary cirrhosis of the fibroxanthomatous variety (MacMahon) is not included in this article. The discussion of acholangic biliary cirrhosis of children is precluded by title. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byPrimary Biliary Cirrhosis: Reevaluation by Clinical and Histologic Study of 49 CasesINTERPRETATION OF THE LIVER BIOPSYThe cholestatic form of viral hepatitisIntrahepatic Obstructive JaundiceObstructive Jaundice the Problem of Differential Diagnosis in a Patient with Carcinoma of the Major Intrahepatic Bile DuctsRELAXINBIOPSY AND BILIARY CIRRHOSIS 1 August 1956Volume 45, Issue 2Page: 242-254KeywordsBileBile ductsBiliary systemBiopsyChildrenCirrhosisHospital medicineLiverPathogenesisPrimary biliary cirrhosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1956 PDF downloadLoading ...