ARFI cut-off values and significance of standard deviation for liver fibrosis staging in patients with chronic liver disease

Annals of Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 935-941

  Goertz, Ruediger S ^a   Sturm, Joerg ^a   Pfeifer, Lukas ^a   Wildner, Dane ^a   Wachter, David L ^a   Neurath, Markus F ^a   Strobel, Deike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse; Cirrhosis; Fibrosis; Hepatitis; Shear wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE ELASTOMETRY; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LUDWIG SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890041437     PISSN: 16652681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1665-2681(19)31299-2     Document Type: Article

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