Hepatic iron quantitation and its relationship with disease measures and histologically assessed iron content

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1390-1394

  Sajjad, Shabbar ^a   Garcia, Moises ^a   Malik, Ahmed ^a   Van Thiel, David H ^a,b  

^a ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatic injury; Hepatic iron concentration; Hepatic iron index; Histology activity index; Liver biopsy; Serum measures of iron

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 41949098929     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-9993-z     Document Type: Article

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