Paediatric chronic liver diseases: How to investigate and follow up? Role of imaging in the diagnosis of fibrosis

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 906-919

  Pariente, Danièle ^a   Franchi Abella, Stéphanie ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Child; Cirrhosis; CT; Elastography; Fibrosis; Liver; MRI; US

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BILE DUCT MALFORMATION; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL LIVER FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXTRAHEPATIC PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATOPORTAL SCLEROSIS; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER NODULE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRICS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RISK; SCLEROSIS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 77954438270     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-010-1600-3     Document Type: Review

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