Serum Laminin-2 and Hyaluronan Predict Severe Liver Fibrosis in Children with Chronic Hepatitis B [5]

Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 868-869

  Lebensztejn, Dariusz M ^a   Kaczmarski, Maciej ^a   Sobaniec Łotowska, Maria ^a   Bauer, Michael ^b   Voelker, Michael ^c   Schuppan, Detlef ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 6; GELATINASE A; HYALURONIC ACID; MEROSIN; PROCOLLAGEN TYPE 3 AMINOPROPEPTIDE; TENASCIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

ADOLESCENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CHILD; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SERUM;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; LAMININ; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1542724796     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20147     Document Type: Letter

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