Combination of fibrosis tests: Sequential or synchronous?

Hepatology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 656-657

  Boursier, Jérôme ^a,b   Calès, Paul ^a,b  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Laboratoire HIFIH (Hemodynamique Interaction Fibrose Invasivite Tumorale Hepatiques)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE TO PLATELET RATIO INDEX; BLOOD EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 68949166002     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23069     Document Type: Letter

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