Ultrasonographic diagnosis of degree of chronic type C liver disease

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 66, 2005, Pages 1820-1824

  Habu, Daiki ^a   Nishiguchi, Shuhei ^a   Enomoto, Masaru ^a   Nakatani, Shinji ^a   Minamitani, Shin ^a   Tamori, Akihiro ^a   Sakaguchi, Hiroki ^a   Takeda, Tadashi ^a   Seki, Shuichi ^a   Ogami, Masayuki ^a   Asai, Hitoshi ^b   Shiomi, Susumu ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis; Cirrhosis; HCV; Stage; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 28544452393     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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