How to adjust the inflammation-induced overestimation of liver fibrosis using transient elastography?

Hepatology Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 182-184

  Yoshioka, Kentaro ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873956348     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: 1872034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2012.01096.x     Document Type: Editorial

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