Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging for assessing graft fibrosis after pediatric living donor liver transplantation: A pilot study

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1202-1213

  Tomita, Hirofumi ^a   Hoshino, Ken ^a   Fuchimoto, Yasushi ^b   Ebinuma, Hirotoshi ^a   Ohkuma, Kiyoshi ^a   Tanami, Yutaka ^a   Du, Wenlin ^a   Masugi, Yohei ^a   Shimojima, Naoki ^a   Fujino, Akihiro ^a   Kano, Motohiro ^a   Fujimura, Takumi ^a   Ishihama, Hideo ^a   Shimizu, Takahiro ^a   Tanabe, Minoru ^a   Saito, Hidetsugu ^a   Sakamoto, Michiie ^a   Hibi, Toshifumi ^a   Kitagawa, Yuko ^a   Kuroda, Tatsuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMEN; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER STIFFNESS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; BLOOD; ELASTOGRAPHY; INFANT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 84886797023     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23708     Document Type: Article

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