Transient elastography in acute hepatitis: All that's stiff is not fibrosis

Hepatology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 370-372

  Cobbold, Jeremy F L ^a   Taylor Robinson, Simon D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; CELL SWELLING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RIGIDITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 39549101990     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22200     Document Type: Editorial

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