Platelet count for predicting fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
โ Scribed by Masato Yoneda; Hideki Fujii; Yoshio Sumida; Hideyuki Hyogo; Yoshito Itoh; Masafumi Ono; Yuichiro Eguchi; Yasuaki Suzuki; Noriaki Aoki; Kazuyuki Kanemasa; Kento Imajo; Kazuaki Chayama; Toshiji Saibara; Norifumi Kawada; Kazuma Fujimoto; Yutaka Kohgo; Toshikazu Yoshikawa; Takeshi Okanoue; Japan Study Group of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (JSG-NAFLD)
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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