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Abstract
Extensive and rapid death of parenchymal cells in the LIVER, often due to exposure to toxic materials or drug-induced injury. It is characterized by a soft, flabby, yellow-brown wrinkled, and shrunken liver. It was called acute yellow atrophy.
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- Acute Yellow Atrophy
- Acute Yellow Atrophy of Liver
- Acute Yellow Atrophies
- Hepatic Necrosis, Massive
- Yellow Atrophy, Acute
- Drug-induced Hepatic Necrosis
- Fulminant Hepatitis
- Hepatitis, Fulminant
- Submassive Hepatic Necrosis
- Drug induced Hepatic Necrosis
- Drug-induced Hepatic Necroses
- Fulminant Hepatitides
- Hepatic Necrosis, Drug-induced
- Hepatic Necrosis, Submassive
- Necrosis, Drug-induced Hepatic
- Necrosis, Submassive Hepatic
- Submassive Hepatic Necroses
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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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History Note
2005; use LIVER DISEASES 1997-2004
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- Liver Diseases (1968-2004)
- Necrosis (1968-2004)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Massive Hepatic Necrosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D047508. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D047508
- Massive Hepatic Necrosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21119304