Longitudinal changes in liver fat content in asymptomatic adults: Hepatic attenuation on unenhanced ct as an imaging biomarker for steatosis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 205, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1167-1172

  Hahn, Luke ^a   Reeder, Scott B ^a   Del Rio, Alejandro Muñoz ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

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

Author keywords

CT; Fatty liver; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; Steatosis

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; LIPID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FAT CONTENT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

AGED; BIOMARKERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84948783602     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.15.14724     Document Type: Article

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