Analysis of Histopathological Changes that Influence Liver Stiffness in Chronic Hepatitis C. Results from a Cohort of 324 Patients

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-163

  Lupşor, Monica ^a,b   Badea, Radu ^a   Stefǎnescu, Horia ^a   Grigorescu, Mircea ^a   Sparchez, Zeno ^a   Serban, Alexandru ^b   Branda, Horatiu ^a   Iancu, Sorana ^c   Maniu, Anca ^a  

^a Department of Ultrasonography ^*

^b IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c ATHENA INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis C; Fibrosis; Liver stiffness; Noninvasive; Transient elastography

Indexed keywords

IRON; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARAMETER; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM;

BIOPSY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, VIRAL; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 46449123946     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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