Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Elastography for fibrosis evaluation in patients with chronic hepatitis C: An international multicenter study

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4112-4118

  Sporea, Ioan ^a   Bota, Simona ^a   Peck Radosavljevic, Markus ^b   Sirli, Roxana ^a   Tanaka, Hironori ^c   Iijima, Hiroko ^c   Badea, Radu ^d   Lupsor, Monica ^d   Fierbinteanu Braticevici, Carmen ^e   Petrisor, Ana ^e   Saito, Hidetsugu ^f   Ebinuma, Hirotoshi ^f   Friedrich Rust, Mireen ^g   Sarrazin, Christoph ^g   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^h   Ono, Naofumi ^h   Piscaglia, Fabio ⁱ   Borghi, Alberto ⁱ   D'Onofrio, Mirko ^j   Gallotti, Anna ^j   Ferlitsch, Arnulf ^b   Popescu, Alina ^a   Danila, Mirela ^a   more..

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

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^e CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Elastography (ARFI); Chronic hepatitis C; Liver fibrosis; Liver stiffness

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

COMORBIDITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84869877570     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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