Liver fibrosis in paediatric liver diseases

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 259-268

  Alisi, Anna ^a   De Vito, Rita ^a   Monti, Lidia ^a   Nobili, Valerio ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Liver biopsy; Liver fibrosis; Non invasive methods; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL LIVER FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGIDITY; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAGING; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

BILIARY ATRESIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FATTY LIVER; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 79954536443     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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