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Case Reports in Pediatrics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 937150, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/937150
Case Report

Twelve-Year-Old Girl with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Ivana Kitic, Aleksandra Boskovic, Ivica Stankovic, and Dragan Prokic

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mother and Child Health Care Institute, Radoja Dakica 6-8, Belgrade, 11070 New Belgrade, Serbia

Received 10 October 2012; Accepted 18 November 2012

Academic Editors: K. L. Chan, P. Czauderna, A. W. Kamps, and A. C. Lee

Copyright © 2012 Ivana Kitic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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