Laennec's cirrhosis Specialty Gastroenterology Laennec's cirrhosis, also known as portal cirrhosis, alcoholic cirrhosis, fatty cirrhosis, or atrophic cirrhosis,[1] is named after René Laennec,[2] a French physician and the inventor of the stethoscope. It is a disease of the liver in which the normal lobular architecture[…]
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