Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis with acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: Increased liver and splenic stiffness in patients with liver fibrosis and cirrhosis

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 160-166

  Grgurevic, I ^a   Cikara, I ^a   Horvat, J ^b   Lukic, I K ^c   Heinzl, R ^a   Banic, M ^a   Kujundzic, M ^a   Brkljacic, B ^a  

^a University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

^b Internal Medicine   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

abdomen; infection; staging; ultrasound color Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSATILE FLOW; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; SPLEEN ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953790505     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: 14388782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245807     Document Type: Article

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