Noninvasive methods for the assessment of liver fibrosis: A window open on the future?

Hepatology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1476-1477

  Pinzani, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COLLAGEN;

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FIBROGENESIS; HEPATITIS C; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NOTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCAR; SURVIVAL; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 80053299758     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24584     Document Type: Note

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