Noninvasive assessment of alcoholic liver disease using unidimensional transient elastography (Fibroscan®)

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 21, Issue 42, 2015, Pages 11914-11923

  Lupsor Platon, Monica ^a   Badea, Radu ^a  

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

Author keywords

Alcoholic liver disease; Controlled attenuation parameter; Fibrosis; Liver stiffness; Steatosis; Transient elastography

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELASTOGRAPH; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXHAUSTION; FATTY LIVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FIBROSIS; META ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RARE DISEASE; STEATOSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; COMORBIDITY; ELASTICITY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANIMALS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84947484102     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i42.11914     Document Type: Article

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