Hepatic fibrosis imaging: Trends and feasibility

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 73-74

  Sohail, Saba ^a  

^a DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VIRUS HEPATITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAKISTAN; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PAKISTAN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84862627639     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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