Shear wave velocity is a useful marker for managing nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2918-2925

  Osaki, Akihiko ^a   Kubota, Tomoyuki ^a   Suda, Takeshi ^a   Igarashi, Masato ^a   Nagasaki, Keisuke ^a   Tsuchiya, Atsunori ^a   Yano, Masahiko ^a   Tamura, Yasushi ^a   Takamura, Masaaki ^a   Kawai, Hirokazu ^b   Yamagiwa, Satoshi ^a   Kikuchi, Toru ^a   Nomoto, Minoru ^a   Aoyagi, Yutaka ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse; Liver stiffness measurement; Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; Shear wave velocity; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; SERUM ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SERUM ALBUMIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954254351     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i23.2918     Document Type: Article

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