A Prospective Blinded Study of Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography in Liver Disease: Towards a Virtual Biopsy

• Main Authors: Allison R. Schulman (Author), Ming V. Lin (Author), Anna Rutherford (Author), Walter W. Chan (Author), Marvin Ryou (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background/Aims Liver biopsy has traditionally been used for determining the degree of fibrosis, however there are several limitations. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) real-time elastography (RTE) is a novel technology that uses image enhancement to display differences in tissue compressibility. We soug...