Liver Elasticity in NASH Patients Evaluated with Real-Time Elastography (RTE)

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 537-544

  Orlacchio, Antonio ^a   Bolacchi, Francesca ^a   Antonicoli, Marco ^a   Coco, Irene ^a   Costanzo, Elisa ^a   Tosti, Daniela ^a   Francioso, Simona ^a   Angelico, Mario ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liver fibrosis; Liver steatosis; Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; Real time elastography

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HITACHI; IMAGING METHOD; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TISSUE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NON-ALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; SONOGRAPHERS;

BIOPSY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ELASTICITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER ELASTICITY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84857800105     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.12.023     Document Type: Article

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