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Research Article

Clinical Significance of Positive Immunoblotting but Negative Immunofluorescence for Antimitochondrial Antibodies in Patients with Liver Diseases Other than Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Jun-Ichi Masuda Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Katsuhisa Omagari Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Hiroshi Miyakawa Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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Hiroaki Hazama Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Kazuo Ohba Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Hideki Kinoshita Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Isao Matsuo Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Hajime Isomoto Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Ikuo Murata Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Shigeru Kohno Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Pages 135-141 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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