Anicteric Viral Hepatitis

Abstract

ANICTERIC viral hepatitis is a widely discussed but little studied entity. Its existence has been acknowledged for many years on the basis of epidemiologic and clinical data, mostly indirect and inferential. For example, during epidemics when the hepatitis infection rate is high, cases in which clinical evidence of hepatitis develops without jaundice are often diagnosed as anicteric hepatitis.1 2 3 In addition, clinicopathological studies have been done on patients in whom chronic liver disease developed without jaundice or with the late appearance of jaundice; the diagnosis of anicteric hepatitis was made retrospectively.4 5 6 The military population of Taiwan offers advantages to the study . . .