Open AccessAssessment of liver fibrosis by a noninvasive method of transient elastography and biochemical markers
Author(s) -
Masaki Kawamoto,
Toru Mizuguchi,
Tadashi Kimura,
Masatoshi Nagayama,
Hideki Oshima,
Hiromu Kawasaki,
Takayuki Nobuoka,
Yasutoshi Kimura,
Koichi Hirata
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v12.i27.4325
Subject(s) - medicine , transient elastography , receiver operating characteristic , gastroenterology , liver biopsy , aspartate transaminase , fibrosis , pathology , biopsy , biology , biochemistry , alkaline phosphatase , enzyme
To assess the correlation between the fibrotic area (FA) as calculated by a digital image analysis (DIA), and to compare the diagnostic accuracy of FibroScan to the other existing Liver fibrosis (LF) markers using the receiver operating curve analysis.