Sampling error and intraobserver variation in liver biopsy in patients with chronic HCV infection

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2614-2618

  Regev, Arie ^a   Berho, Mariana ^b   Jeffers, Lennox J ^a   Milikowski, Clara ^c   Molina, Enrique G ^a   Pyrsopoulos, Nikolaos T ^a   Feng, Zheng Zhou ^a   Reddy, K Rajender ^d   Schiff, Eugene R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOME;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0036792679     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(02)04396-4     Document Type: Article

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