Liver biopsy in the era of elastography

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 185-186

  Sporea, Ioan ^a  

^a VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOPSY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 80052838956     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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