Fibroscan

Clinical Liver Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 97-101

  Patel, Keyur ^a   Wilder, Julius ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPH; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MIXED INFECTION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIBRATION CONTROLLED TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84915775625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cld.407     Document Type: Review

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