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Contrast-Enhanced Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation SHAPE Using Ultrasound Imaging with a Focus on Identifying Portal Hypertension
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Algorithm to rule out clinically significant portal hypertension combining Shear-wave elastography of liver and
Christian Jansen1, Christopher Bogs1, Wim Verlinden2
1Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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|February 21, 2016
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