Feasibility and reproducibility of spleen transient elastography and its role in combination with liver transient elastography for predicting the severity of chronic viral hepatitis

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 90-98

  Fraquelli, M ^a   Giunta, M ^a   Pozzi, R ^a   Rigamonti, C ^a   Della Valle, S ^a   Massironi, S ^a   Conti, C B ^a   Aghemo, A ^a   Ronchi, G ^a   Iurlo, A ^a   Primignani, M ^a   Conte, D ^a   Colombo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

cirrhosis; fibroscan; inter observer variability; liver biopsy; portal hypertension; reproducibility; spleen elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIGIDITY; SPLEEN; SPLEEN TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; AGED; EVALUATION STUDY; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SPLEEN;

EID: 84891833152     PISSN: 13520504     EISSN: 13652893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvh.12119     Document Type: Article

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