Quick assessment with controlled attenuation parameter for hepatic steatosis in children based on MRI-PDFF as the gold standard

• Main Authors: Jaeseung Shin (Author), Myung-Joon Kim (Author), Hyun Joo Shin (Author), Haesung Yoon (Author), Seung Kim (Author), Hong Koh (Author), Mi-Jung Lee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) is a recently introduced, non-invasive and quantitative method to evaluate hepatic steatosis demonstrated in adults, but limited in obesity and not well evaluated in children. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic performan...