Laparoscopic features and interobserver variation of histological diagnosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-28

  Miyaoka, Hiroaki ^b   Michitaka, Kojiro ^a   Tokumoto, Yoshio ^a   Miyake, Teruki ^a   Shigematsu, Shuichiro ^a   Soga, Yoshiko ^a   Abe, Masanori ^a   Hiasa, Yoichi ^a   Matsuura, Bunzo ^a   Horiike, Norio ^a   Onji, Morikazu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Histological diagnosis; Laparoscopy; Liver biopsy; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Non alcoholic steatohepatitis

Indexed keywords

DYE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36749082442     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2007.00771.x     Document Type: Article

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