Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis: The need for better validation

Hepatology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1781-1782

  Tsochatzis, Emmanuel A ^a   Germani, Giacomo ^a   Hall, Andrew ^b   anousou, Pinelopi M ^a   Dhillon, Amar P ^b   Burroughs, Andrew K ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UCL Medical School Royal Free Campus ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEPATIC VEIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VENOUS PRESSURE;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 79955112871     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24271     Document Type: Letter

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