Assessment of liver volume variation to evaluate liver function

Frontiers of Medicine in China

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 421-427

  Tong, Cong ^a   Xu, Xinsen ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Zhang, Tianzheng ^b   Qu, Kai ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shaanxi Xianyang 215 Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

acute liver failure (ALF); cirrhosis; liver volume variation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870824146     PISSN: 16737342     EISSN: 16737458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11684-012-0223-5     Document Type: Article

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