Soft technique, hard end-points

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 955-956

  Bosch, Jaume ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLON DISEASE; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATIC VENOUS PRESSURE GRADIENT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; STOMACH DISEASE;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; PORTAL PRESSURE;

EID: 80054771981     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2011.03.009     Document Type: Editorial

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