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Toxic hepatic injury mimicking ascending cholangitis: is Pyrus amygdaliformis to blame?

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  1. Department of Pathology, Aristotle University Medical School, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Despoina Televantou & Prodromos Hytiroglou

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Evangelos A. Akriviadis

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouil Sinakos & Evangelos A. Akriviadis

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Televantou, D., Sinakos, E., Akriviadis, E.A. et al. Toxic hepatic injury mimicking ascending cholangitis: is Pyrus amygdaliformis to blame?. Virchows Arch 453, 413–415 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-008-0663-0

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