Checkmate to liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C?

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 5514-5520

  Trifan, Anca ^a   Stanciu, Carol ^a  

^a GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Fibrosis; Liver biopsy; Noninvasive methods

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BOCEPREVIR; PEGINTERFERON; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RIBAVIRIN; TELAPREVIR;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREVALENCE; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRAL CLEARANCE;

EID: 84873931650     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i39.5514     Document Type: Article

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