Noninvasive Measures of Liver Fibrosis and Severity of Liver Disease.
Determining the degree of fibrosis is an important step in the assessment of disease severity in patients with chronic liver disease. Liver biopsy has been the gold standard for estimating the extent of inflammation and fibrosis, although the procedure has limitations such as sampling error and vari...
| Published in: | Gastroenterology & Hepatology Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 33 - 41 |
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| Format: | pictorial protocol review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Gastro-Hep Communications, Inc
Jan2016
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