Ultrasound-Based Liver Stiffness Surveillance in Patients Treated for Chronic Hepatitis B or C
Evolving modes of ultrasound-based elastography have achieved promising validity and reliability for evaluating liver fibrosis. Liver stiffness (LS) is a valuable biomarker for modeling liver disease progression and regression on a continuous noncategorical scale as changes in LS per year or for det...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-04-01
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Series: | Applied Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/626 |