Liver biopsy has long been an important tool for assessing the degree of liver fibrosis. Information on the presence and degree of liver fibrosis is useful before making therapeutic decisions or predicting disease outcomes. The need to stage liver fibrosis, however, should decrease as treatment opti
Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Fibrosis: Serum Markers, Imaging, and Other Modalities
β Scribed by Guha, I.N.; Rosenberg, W.M.
- Book ID
- 120366831
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 261 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1089-3261
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