Interobserver concordance in the assessment of liver fibrosis in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients using transient elastometry

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 801-807

  Neukam, Karin ^a   Recio, Eva ^a   Camacho, Ángela ^c   Macías, Juan ^a   Rivero, Antonio ^c   Mira, José A ^a   López, Cristina ^c   Almeida, Carmen ^b   De La Torre, Julián ^c   Pineda, Juan A ^a  

^a Unit of Infectious Diseases bUnit of Investigation   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^c Hospital Reina Sofa   (Spain)

Author keywords

hepatitis C; human immunodeficiency virus; interobserver concordance; transient elastometry

Indexed keywords

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT ELASTOMETRY; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 77954010927     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e328331a5d0     Document Type: Article

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