WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: Liver

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1161-1179

  Ferraioli, Giovanna ^a   Filice, Carlo ^a   Castera, Laurent ^b   Choi, Byung Ihn ^c   Sporea, Ioan ^d   Wilson, Stephanie R ^e   Cosgrove, David ^f   Dietrich, Christoph F ^g   Amy, Dominique ^h   Bamber, Jeffrey C ⁱ   Barr, Richard ^j   Chou, Yi Hong ^k   Ding, Hong ^l   Farrokh, Andre ^m   Friedrich Rust, Mireen ⁿ   Hall, Timothy J ^o   Nakashima, Kazutaka ^p   Nightingale, Kathryn R ^q   Palmeri, Mark L ^q   Schafer, Fritz ^r   Shiina, Tsuyoshi ^s   Suzuki, Shinichi ^t   Kudo, Masatoshi ^u   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^d VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^h Breast Center   (France)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^j Northeastern Ohio Medical University   (United States)

^k NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^l FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^m FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^p KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^q Duke University   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^s KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^u KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Elastography; Focal liver lesions; Guidelines; Liver; Liver diseases; Liver fibrosis; Liver stiffness; Shear wave elastography; Strain elastography; Transient elastography; Ultrasound; WFUMB

Indexed keywords

LIVER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTOGRAPHY; FOCAL LIVER LESIONS; GUIDELINES; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; WFUMB;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TUMOR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RIGIDITY; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; VIRUS HEPATITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STANDARDS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERNATIONALITY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84927566853     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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