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Non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis: adjuncts or alternatives to liver biopsy?
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Liver fibrosis reflects sustained liver injury often from multiple, simultaneous factors. Whilst the presence of mild fibrosis on biopsy can be a reassuring finding, the identification of advanced fibrosis is critical to the management of patients with chronic liver disease. This necessity has lead to a reliance on liver biopsy which itself is an imperfect test and poorly accepted by patients. The development of robust tools to non-invasively assess liver fibrosis has dramatically enhanced cl...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.3389/fphar.2016.00159
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- Publisher:
- Frontiers Media Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Frontiers in Pharmacology Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- JUN
- Article number:
- 159
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-31
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1663-9812
- Pmid:
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27378924
- Source identifiers:
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634097
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- English
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pubs:634097
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- pubs:634097
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- 2018-07-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Chin et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 Chin et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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