Elastography for hepatic fibrosis severity in chronic hepatitis B or C

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-72

  Papageorgiou, Maria Vasiliki ^a   Papatheodoridis, George V ^a   Manolakopoulos, Spilios ^a   Tsochatzis, Emmanuel ^a   Kranidioti, Hariklia ^a   Kafiri, Georgia ^b   Archimandritis, Athanasios I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis; Cirrhosis; Fibroscan; Liver biopsy; Liver fibrosis; Surrogate markers; Transient elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79957812470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000316635     Document Type: Article

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