[Diagnosis of hepatitis with special reference to the viral form]

A study is made on 131 patients with presumptive diagnosis of viral hepatitis showing that 25% of patients had acute liver failure as an epiphenomenon of a liver disorder excluding viral hepatitis. These results were obtained through a systematic study of all patients in their various clinical, humoral, and anatomotissular aspects; the latter was achieved through laparoscopy and liver biopsy in the state of the disease.