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Indian childhood cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease of childhood characterised by cirrhosis of liver due to deposition of copper in the liver. It primarily affects children of 1–3 years of age and has a genetic predisposition. It had a very high case fatality in the past but has eventually become preventable treatable and is now rare.

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