Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of ultrasonography for the detection of fatty liver: A meta-analysis

Hepatology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1082-1090

  Hernaez, Ruben ^a,b,c   Lazo, Mariana ^a   Bonekamp, Susanne ^a   Kamel, Ihab ^a   Brancati, Frederick L ^a,c,d   Guallar, Eliseo ^c,d,e   Clark, Jeanne M ^a,c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; HEPATITIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; META ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEATOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052012241     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24452     Document Type: Review

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