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Plasma exchange for fulminant Wilson disease

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Abbreviations

FWH:

fulminating Wilson hepatitis

PE:

plasma Exchange

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  1. Service de Pédiatrie et Génétique Médicale (Professeur F. Giraud), Hôpital d'Enfants de la Timone, F-13385, Marseille, France

    J. Sarles & G. Picon

  2. Unité d'Hemaphérèse et d'Autotransfusion, Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, France

    P. Lefevre

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Sarles, J., Lefevre, P. & Picon, G. Plasma exchange for fulminant Wilson disease. Eur J Pediatr 151, 310 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02072237

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