Is liver biopsy still needed in children with chronic viral hepatitis?

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 21, Issue 42, 2015, Pages 12141-12149

  Pokorska Śpiewak, Maria ^a,b   Kowalik Mikołajewska, Barbara ^a,b   Aniszewska, Małgorzata ^a,b   Pluta, Magdalena ^a,b   Marczyńska, Magdalena ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b SP ZOZ Wojewodzki Szpital Zakazny Centrum Diagnostyki i Terapii AIDS Warszawa   (Poland)

Author keywords

Children; Elastography; Fibrosis; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C; Liver biopsy; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BILIARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; BLEEDING; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; CHRONIC HEPATITIS C; CLINICAL EVALUATION; HEMATOTHORAX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVER BIOPSY; MIXED INFECTION; NEURALGIA; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PERFORATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVIEW; VISCERAL PERFORATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; BIOPSY; COMPLICATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIROLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY; COINFECTION; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84977083848     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i42.12141     Document Type: Review

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