Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: A new technology for the noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis?

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-412

  Castera, Laurent ^a,b  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 74949116298     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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