Transient elastography in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Making sense of echos

Hepatology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 370-372

  Adams, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CYTOKERATIN 18; HYALURONIC ACID; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; FIBROGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 75449110000     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23422     Document Type: Editorial

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