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Significance of the (13)C-caffeine breath test for patients with cirrhosis
BACKGROUND: The 13C-caffeine breath test (CBT) is a non-invasive, quantitative test of liver function which has been shown to correlate inversely to the Child-Pugh score. The aim of the study was to determine the utility of CBT in the assessment of cirrhosis and its correlation to the model for end-...
Autores principales: | Konstantinou, Dimitrios, Margariti, Ekaterini, Hadziyannis, Emilia, Pectasides, Dimitrios, Papatheodoridis, George V. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959537/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714782 |
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