Feasibility of Transient Elastography with M and XL probes in real life

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 7-10

  Sporea, Ioan ^a   Şirli, Roxana ^a   Mare, Ruxandra ^a   Popescu, Alina ^a   Ivaşcu, Siegfried Cristian ^a  

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

Author keywords

Feasibility; Liver stiffness; Obese; Overweight; Real life; Transient Elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPH; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER FIBROSIS; M PROBE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OBESITY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGIDITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; XL PROBE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROMANIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROMANIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84959866158     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11152/mu.2013.2066.181.xsi     Document Type: Article

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