Liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: Noninvasive diagnosis by means of real-time tissue elastography - Establishment of the method for measurement

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 610-617

  Koizumi, Yohei ^a   Hirooka, Masashi ^a   Kisaka, Yoshiyasu ^a   Konishi, Ichiro ^a   Abe, Masanori ^a   Murakami, Hidehiro ^a   Matsuura, Bunzo ^a   Hiasa, Yoichi ^a   Onji, Morikazu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINESTERASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FERRITIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HAPTOGLOBIN; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROINDEX; FORNS SCORE; HEPASCORE; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REAL TIME TISSUE ELASTOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952357912     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100319     Document Type: Article

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