Noninvasive classification of liver disease in asymptomatic and oligosymptomatic male alcoholics

The predominant type of liver alteration in asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic chronic male alcoholics (N = 169) admitted to a psychiatric hospital for detoxification was classified by two independent methods: liver palpation and multiple quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA), the latter applied to tw...

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Main Authors: P. Borini, R.C. Guimarães
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2003-10-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2003001000013