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Extrahepatic Immunological Disorders May Be Caused by Hepatitis C

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 4th, 1996

Peripancreatic adenopathy in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important diagnostic sign and may indicate an involvement of hepatitis C in still unexplained extrahepatic immunological disorders.

"The association between an increase in lymph nodes and hepatitis C positivity on screening, and the negative response to this screening in chronic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers, may not be merely expression of a non-specific inflammatory reaction to the infection and the viral hepatic location," researcher S. Neri et al. wrote ("Peripancreatic Lymphoadenopathy and Extrahepatic Immunological Manifestations in Chronic Hepatitis C," European Journal of Clinical...

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