Diagnostic accuracy of transient elastography (FibroScan) versus the aspartate transaminase to platelet ratio index in assessing liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B: The role in primary care setting

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 916-920

  Lesmana, C Rinaldi A ^a,b   Salim, Simon ^a   Hasan, Irsan ^a   Sulaiman, Andri S ^a   Gani, Rino A ^a   Pakasi, Levina S ^b   Lesmana, Laurentius A ^a,b   Krisnuhoni, Ening ^a   Budihusodo, Unggul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b Medistra Hospital   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOPSY; CLINICAL ENZYME TESTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INDONESIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80053194063     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200044     Document Type: Article

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