Open AccessTransient elastography compared to liver biopsy and morphometry for predicting fibrosis in pediatric chronic liver disease: Does etiology matter?
Author(s) -
Behairy El-Sayed Behairy,
Mostafa Mohamed Sira,
Khaled Zalata,
Elsayed Ibrahim Salama,
Mohamed Abdallah
Publication year - 2016
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.v22.i16.4238
Subject(s) - transient elastography , fibrosis , medicine , gastroenterology , receiver operating characteristic , liver biopsy , autoimmune hepatitis , biopsy , chronic liver disease , liver disease , pathology , elastography , stage (stratigraphy) , hepatitis , cirrhosis , ultrasound , radiology , biology , paleontology
To evaluate transient elastography (TE) as a noninvasive tool in staging liver fibrosis compared with liver biopsy and morphometry in children with different chronic liver diseases.