Idiopathic copper-associated cirrhosis is a rare copper-overload liver disease characterised by a rapidly progressive liver cirrhosis from the first few years of life leading to hepatic insufficiency and harbouring a specific pathological aspect: pericellular fibrosis, inflammatory infiltration, hepatocyte necrosis, absence of steatosis, poor regeneration and histochemical copper staining.
Also indexed as
Idiopathic copper toxicosisIdiopathic copper-associated cirrhosisIndian childhood cirrhosisNon-Wilsonian hepatic copper toxicosis of infancy and childhoodTyrolean infantile cirrhosis
Nearby in Certain specified fibrosis or cirrhosis of liver