Evidence and recommendations for imaging liver fat in children, based on systematic review

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 765-773

  Awai, Hannah I ^a,b,c   Newton, Kimberly P ^a,c   Sirlin, Claude B ^b   Behling, Cynthia ^d   Schwimmer, Jeffrey B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence Based Medicine; Liver Imaging; NAFLD

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; PROTON;

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FATTY LIVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84899089918     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: 15427714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.09.050     Document Type: Review

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