Noninvasive diagnosis of cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C based on standard laboratory tests [8]

Hepatology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 378-379

  Lackner, Carolin ^a   Struber, Gerd ^a   Bankuti, Csilla ^a   Bauer, Bernd ^b   Stauber, Rudolf E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE; ULTRASOUND;

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; PLATELET COUNT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33644532246     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21037     Document Type: Letter

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