Real time elastography - A non-invasive diagnostic method of small hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 439-446

  Gheorghe, Liana ^a   Iacob, Speranta ^a   Iacob, Razvan ^a   Dumbrava, Mona ^a   Becheanu, Gabriel ^a   Herlea, Vlad ^a   Gheorghe, Cristian ^a   Lupescu, Ioana ^a   Popescu, Irinel ^a  

^a FUNDENI CLINICAL INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Noninvasive diagnosis; Real time elastography

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NODULE; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SONOELASTOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 74949122402     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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