Improving performance of liver biopsy in fibrosis assessment

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 193-195

  Asselah, Tarik ^a   Marcellin, Patrick ^a   Bedossa, Pierre ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBER; ENTECAVIR; FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN; TENOFOVIR;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MORBIDITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STAGING; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; COMPLICATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL;

ANIMALS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 84904753781     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: 16000641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.03.006     Document Type: Editorial

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