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

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.In pediatric patients (1 to 18 years), TE (FibroScan®) with an M probe was used for both liver stiffnes...

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Main Authors: Daisuke Tokuhara, Yuki Cho, Haruo Shintaku
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5115769?pdf=render