Hepatic elasticity in patients with ascites: Evaluation with real-time tissue elastography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Hirooka, Masashi ^a   Koizumi, Yohei ^a   Hiasa, Yoichi ^a   Abe, Masanori ^a   Ikeda, Yoshio ^a   Matsuura, Bunzo ^a   Onji, Morikazu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascites; Elastic ratio; Liver stiffness; Real time tissue elastography; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER ELASTICITY; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; ASCITES; BIOPSY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79960477287     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4867     Document Type: Article

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