Value of hepatic elastography and Doppler indexes for predictions of esophageal varices in liver cirrhosis

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-11

  Binţinţan, Adriana ^a   Chira, Romeo Ioan ^a   Binţinţan, Vasile Virgil ^a   Nagy, Georgiana Anca ^a   Mânzat Săplăcan, Maria Roberta ^a   Lupşor Platon, Monica ^b   Ştefănescu, Horia ^b   Duma, Maria Magdalena ^c   Vălean, Simona Doina ^a   Mircea, Petru Adrian ^a  

^a Spitalul Clinic Judetean de Urgenta Cluj   (Romania)

^b Octavian Fodor Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology   (Romania)

^c IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Esophageal varices; Esophagogastroduodenoscopy; Non invasive diagnosis; Transient elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC LIVER INDEX; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VASCULAR RESISTANCE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENOPORTAL INDEX; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84924479037     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11152/mu.2013.2066.171.abric     Document Type: Article

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