Adding variceal status to Child-Turcotte-Pugh score improves its performance in predicting early mortality in cirrhosis: The Child-Turcotte-Pugh- Kumar score

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1348-1349

  Kumar, Ashish ^a   Sharma, Praveen ^a   Sarin, Shiv Kumar ^b  

^a SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF LIVER AND BILIARY SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CHILD TURCOTTE PUGH SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867298239     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e3283579475     Document Type: Letter

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