Clinical feasibility of liver elastography by acoustic radiation force impulse imaging (ARFI)

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 491-497

  Rifai, Kinan ^a   Cornberg, Janet ^a   Mederacke, Ingmar ^a   Bahr, Matthias J ^a   Wedemeyer, Heiner ^a   Malinski, Philipp ^a   Bantel, Heike ^a   Boozari, Bita ^a   Potthoff, Andrej ^a   Manns, Michael P ^a   Gebel, Michael ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver cirrhosis; Liver fibrosis; Transient elastography; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATOGRAPHY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79955926420     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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