Real-time sono-elastography in the diagnosis of diffuse liver diseases

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1720-1726

  Gheonea, Dan Ionuţ ^a   Sǎftoiu, Adrian ^a   Ciurea, Tudorel ^a   Gorunescu, Florin ^a   Iordache, Sevastiţa ^a   Popescu, Gabriel Lucian ^a   Belciug, Smaranda ^b   Gorunescu, Marina ^b   Sǎndulescu, Larisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Elastography; Liver cirrhosis; Liver steatosis; Ultrasonography; Viral hepatitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950970537     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i14.1720     Document Type: Article

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