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Abstract
Chronic inflammatory disease of the BILIARY TRACT. It is characterized by fibrosis and hardening of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary ductal systems leading to bile duct strictures, CHOLESTASIS, and eventual BILIARY CIRRHOSIS.
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- Cholangiitis, Sclerosing
- Cholangitis, Sclerosing
- Cholangiitides, Sclerosing
- Cholangitides, Sclerosing
- Sclerosing Cholangiitides
- Sclerosing Cholangiitis
- Sclerosing Cholangitides
- Cholangitis, Primary Sclerosing
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Cholangitides, Primary Sclerosing
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitides
- Sclerosing Cholangitides, Primary
- Sclerosing Cholangitis, Primary
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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- Cholangitis (1966-1988)
- Sclerosis (1966-1988)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sclerosing Cholangitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015209. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015209
- Sclerosing Cholangitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18554727