Liver Fibrosis with Two-dimensional US Shear-Wave Elastography in Participants with Chronic Hepatitis B: A

Yongyan Gao1, Jian Zheng1, Ping Liang1

  • 1From the Department of Interventional Ultrasound, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China (Y.G., P.L.); Department of Ultrasound, The General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Beijing, China (Y.G.); Department of Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (J.Z., R.Z.); Department of Ultrasound, Third People's Hospital of Longgang District of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (J.Z.); Functional Examination Department of Children's Hospital, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China (M.T., J.W.); Ultrasound Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China (C.W., X.H.); Ultrasound Department, Guangzhou the Eighth People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China (C.L., S.Z.); Department of Ultrasound, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China (L.H.); Department of Ultrasonography, the First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (T.J., C.C.); Function Diagnosis Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China (F.M., X.M.); Ultrasound Department, The Second People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China (Y. Lu, Y. Li); Ultrasound Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China (H.A., X.Q.); Department of Medical Ultrasonics, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China (X.Y.X., W.W.); and Department of Ultrasound, Jiangsu Province Hospital of TCM, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of TCM, Nanjing, China (L.P.Y., Y.Y.W.).

Radiology
|July 25, 2018
PubMed

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