Liver elastography, comments on EFSUMB elastography guidelines 2013

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 19, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 6329-6347

  Cui, Xin Wu ^a   Friedrich Rust, Mireen ^b   De Molo, Chiara ^a   Ignee, Andre ^a   Schreiber Dietrich, Dagmar ^c   Dietrich, Christoph F ^a  

^a CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c Asklepios Klinik St Augustin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elastography; Fibrosis; Guidelines; Liver; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; HYALURONIC ACID; LAMININ; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROCOLLAGEN TYPE 3 AMINOPROPEPTIDE;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MECHANICAL PROBE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; STRAIN ELASTOGRAPHY;

ELASTOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; GUIDELINES; LIVER; ULTRASOUND;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84885655494     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i38.6329     Document Type: Article

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