New noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B: Maximal accumulative respiration strain

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1213-1221

  Hu, Xiangdong ^a   Shao, Jinhua ^b   Bai, Jing ^b   Wang, Jinrui ^c   Qian, Linxue ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis B; Liver fibrosis; Noninvasive method; Sonography; Strain

Indexed keywords

NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; STRAIN; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LIVER FIBROSIS; NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENTS; NONINVASIVE METHODS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SPEARMAN CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955618741     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.8.1213     Document Type: Article

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