Factors correlating with acoustic radiation force impulse elastography in chronic hepatitis C

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1289-1297

  Nishikawa, Toru ^a   Hashimoto, Senju ^a   Kawabe, Naoto ^a   Harata, Masao ^a   Nitta, Yoshifumi ^a   Murao, Michihito ^a   Nakano, Takuji ^a   Mizuno, Yuko ^a   Shimazaki, Hiroaki ^a   Kan, Toshiki ^a   Nakaoka, Kazunori ^a   Takagawa, Yuka ^a   Ohki, Masashi ^a   Ichino, Naohiro ^a   Osakabe, Keisuke ^a   Yoshioka, Kentaro ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse; Body mass index; Chronic hepatitis C; Computer assisted morphometric image analysis; Fibrosis stage; Hyaluronic acid; Liver stiffness measurement; Transient elastography; Velocity of shear wave

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LIVER BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEATOSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC HEPATITIS C; COMPUTER-ASSISTED MORPHOMETRIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; FIBROSIS STAGE; HYALURONIC ACID; LIVER STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; VELOCITY OF SHEAR WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; BODY MASS INDEX; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84893108406     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i5.1289     Document Type: Article

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