Performance of real-time elastography for the staging of hepatic fibrosis: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: With the rapid development of real-time elastography (RTE), a variety of measuring methods have been developed for the assessment of hepatic fibrosis. We evaluated the overall performance of four methods based on RTE by performing meta-analysis of published literature. METHODS: Online jo...

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Main Authors: Huisuo Hong, Jia Li, Yin Jin, Qiao Li, Weimin Li, Jiansheng Wu, Zhiming Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4277316?pdf=render