Changing Nomenclature for PBC from "Primary Biliary Cirrhosis" to "Primary Biliary Cholangitis"

J Gastroenterol. 2016 Jul;51(7):748-9. doi: 10.1007/s00535-016-1223-z. Epub 2016 May 26.

Atsushi Tanaka^{1

2}, Hajime Takikawa^{3

4}, Satoshi Mochida^{5

6}, Kazuhiko Koike^{7

6}, Hiroto Miwa^{8

9}, Toru Shimosegawa^{10

9}

¹ Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan. a-tanaka@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp.
² Health Labor Science Research Grants from Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases, the Intractable Hepato-Biliary Diseases Study Group in Japan, Tokyo, Japan. a-tanaka@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp.
³ Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan.
⁴ Health Labor Science Research Grants from Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases, the Intractable Hepato-Biliary Diseases Study Group in Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan.
⁶ The Japan Society of Hepatology, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
⁸ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
⁹ The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology, Tokyo, Japan.
¹⁰ Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

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