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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Main Authors: Sheng-Hung Chen, Cheng-Yuan Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-04-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/626