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Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
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Drug-induced liver injury. Part I: Classification, diagnosis and treatment

Dorota M. Kozielewicz
1, 2
,
Piotr Stalke
3
,
Julita Skrzypek
2

  1. Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
  2. Department of Liver Diseases, Provincial Infectious Disease Hospital of T. Browicz, Bydgoszcz, Poland
  3. Department of Infectious Disease, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
Clin Exp HEPATOL 2025; 11, 1: 25-33
Online publish date: 2025/03/25
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