Is there a real future for liver elastography?

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-131

  Sporea, Ioan ^a  

^a VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; ACOUSTICS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ASCITES; B SCAN; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES;

EID: 84863476615     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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