Hepatic Damage in Infantile Pellagra

Needle Biopsy and Liver Function in Earlier Stages of Fatty Cirrhosis of the Liver

“…In countries such as India and South Africa where the diet is poor in proteins and vitamins in certain groups of the natives, there is also a very high frequency of cirrhosis (12). GILLMAN and associates (12,13,14) have even through biopsy studies shown that children with severe malnutrition and fatty livers often develop a manifest cirrhosis. Fatty infiltration has also been produced in rats in spite of an adequate diet by giving alcohol (15).…”

Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases

“…The sporadic cases that are occasionally seen in hospitals of industrial cities outside the tropics are usually children from broken homes, and here the neglect is crimina1. 2 Pathology.-Detailed studies have been made in Uganda by Davies (30) and in Johannesburg by GiIImaU'& Gillman (13).…”

Biopsia Hepática: Análisis critico de su importancia clínica

“…Como en la revision de la literatura a nuestro alcance no hemos encontrado referencias acerca del uso de la punc'cn-biopsia en clinica infantil -aparte de los ensayos y.i mencionados -de Gillmfln y Gillman 8 -, nos ha parecido de interes reflexionar sobre las apliciaciones y posibilidades de este procedimiento en el esclarecimiento de problemas de patologia hepatica en el nino. Este trabajo es b re.sultante de esas reflexiones como de la revision de los datos pertinentes en medicina de adultos.…”