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...

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Publicado en:Gastroenterology & Hepatology Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 33 - 41
Autores principales: Lucero, Catherine, Brown Jr., Robert S.
Formato: pictorial protocol review tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Gastro-Hep Communications, Inc Jan2016
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost