%0 Journal Article %T Medios de diagn¨®stico aplicados para la confirmaci¨®n de enfermedades hepatobiliares %A Ulloa Arias %A Beatriz %A ¨˘lvarez Guerra %A Odalis %A Castellanos Carmenate %A Teresa %A Gonz¨˘lez de la Paz %A Jos¨¦ E %A Reyes Abich %A Dagneri %J MEDISAN %D 2009 %I Centro Provincial de Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X a descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in two rooms of internal medicine and in the clinical gastroenterology room at "dr. juan bruno zayas alfonso" teaching general hospital of santiago de cuba, from february, 2006 to february, 2007, with the purpose of decreasing negative implication of hepatobiliary diseases on organic functioning in general. the used sources of information were medical and statistical records.serological tests were the most used and more effective in the diagnosis of these conditions.hepatic diseases prevailed and most of them due to infectious causes. %K liver diseases [diagnosis] %K biliary tracts diseases [diagnosis] %K serologic tests %K communicable diseases [diagnosis]. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1029-30192009000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en