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Sara Kathryn Smith1, Emily R Perito1

  • 1Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, 5th Floor, Mail Code 0136, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

Clinics in Liver Disease
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PubMed

Keywords:
Fatty liver diseaseNAFLDNASHPediatricSteatohepatitis

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