Diffusion-Weighted MRI for the Assessment of Liver Fibrosis: Principles and Applications.
The importance of an early identification of hepatic fibrosis has been emphasized, in order to start therapy and obtain fibrosis regression. Biopsy is the gold-standard method for the assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic liver diseases, but it is limited by complications, interobserver variabilit...
| Publicado en: | BioMed Research International Vol. 2015; pp. 1 - 8 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas review Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
3/19/2015
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