Extrahepatic cholestasis increases liver stiffness (fibroScan) irrespective of fibrosis

Hepatology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1718-1723

  Millonig, Gunda ^a   Reimann, Frank M ^a   Friedrich, Stephanie ^a   Fonouni, Hamidreza ^a   Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Seitz, Helmut Karl ^a   Mueller, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SWINE; BILE DUCT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCTS; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; JAUNDICE, OBSTRUCTIVE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56149103873     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22577     Document Type: Article

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