Arif M A, Qureshi A F, Rahimtoola R J
J Pak Med Assoc. 1977 Mar;27(3):296-9.
Seventy children with hepatomegaly, between the ages of 3 months and 13 years, were investigated including a liver biopsy in 60, to study the general pattern of liver disease in children. Thirty percent had acute viral hapatitis, 20 percent cirrhosis, 17.6 percent pulmonary tuberculosis, 18 percent hereditary diseases and 14 percent miscellaneous diseases involving the liver. None of the cases met the criteria for Indian childhood cirrhosis. It was concluded that in Karachi pulmonary tuberculosis was a common case of hepatosplenomegaly in children and that the aetiology of cirrhosis was probably multifactorial.
对70名年龄在3个月至13岁之间的肝肿大儿童进行了调查，其中60名进行了肝活检，以研究儿童肝病的总体模式。30%患有急性病毒性肝炎，20%患有肝硬化，17.6%患有肺结核，18%患有遗传性疾病，14%患有涉及肝脏的其他疾病。没有一例符合印度儿童肝硬化的标准。得出的结论是，在卡拉奇，肺结核是儿童肝脾肿大的常见病因，肝硬化的病因可能是多因素的。
