A multicenter study of the outcome of biliary atresia in the United States, 1997 to 2000
From Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York; Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland; and Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
Received 6 July 2005; received in revised form 1 December 2005; accepted 19 December 2005.
Supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants U01DK062436, U01DK062445, U01DK062452, U01DK062453, U01DK062456, U01DK062466, U01DK062481, U01DK062497, U01DK062500, and U01DK062503).
The initial draft of the manuscript was written jointly by Benjamin Shneider, Ronald Sokol, Morton Brown, Barbara Haber, and Peter Whitington. No honorarium, grant, or other form of payment was rendered for the preparation of this manuscript.
PII: S0022-3476(05)01207-2
doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.12.054
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