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Transient Elastography-Based Liver Stiffness Age-Dependently Increases in Children

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Pediatric use of liver transient elastography (TE) is attractive for its non-invasiveness, but reference values have not been established. We aimed to determine reference values for TE in children. METHODS: In pediatric patients (1 to 18 years), TE (FibroScan®) with an M probe w...

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Autores principales: Tokuhara, Daisuke, Cho, Yuki, Shintaku, Haruo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5115769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27861607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166683