Prediction of presence of oesophageal varices just by shear-wave elastography of the liver and spleen

Liver Int. 2017 Sep;37(9):1406-1407. doi: 10.1111/liv.13446.

Authors

Christian Jansen¹, Maja Thiele², Wim Verlinden³, Aleksander Krag², Sven Francque³, Jonel Trebicka^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
³ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 28845618
DOI: 10.1111/liv.13446

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Elasticity Imaging Techniques*
Esophageal and Gastric Varices*
Humans
Liver
Liver Cirrhosis
Spleen