Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging or Transient Elastography in Chronic Hepatitis B?
Coskun Ozturker1, Ergenekon Karagoz2
1Department of Radiology, GATA Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
|January 18, 2016
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