Transient elastography for measurement of liver stiffness measurement can detect early significant hepatic fibrosis in Japanese patients with viral and nonviral liver diseases

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 720-728

  Obara, Noriyuki ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Fukushima, Koji ^a   Nakagome, Yu ^a   Kakazu, Eiji ^a   Kimura, Osamu ^a   Wakui, Yuta ^a   Kido, Osamu ^a   Ninomiya, Masashi ^a   Kogure, Takayuki ^a   Inoue, Jun ^a   Kondo, Yasuteru ^a   Shiina, Masaaki ^a   Iwasaki, Takao ^a   Yamamoto, Takeshi ^b   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Tohoku Koseinenkin Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic liver disease; Fibrosis; NAFLD; Transient elastography

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; HYALURONIC ACID; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPANESE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52749093094     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-008-2225-2     Document Type: Article

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