Non-invasive evaluation of hepatic fibrosis: don't count your chickens before they're hatched
Open Access
- 1 March 2006
- Vol. 55 (3) , 310-312
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.2005.068585
Abstract
There is an increasing desire for non‐invasive tests to assess both the stage of liver fibrosis and the rate of progression of fibrogenic chronic liver diseases and so reduce the need for repeated liver biopsies. However, higher quality non‐invasive diagnostic procedures are still neededKeywords
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