The advent of vibration controlled transient elastography (VCTE or simply TE) with Fibroscan
in 2003–the first tool able to non-invasively quantify liver stiffness using ultrasound, thereby …

Liver Biopsy was considered the “gold standard” for severity assessment in chronic hepatitis
for a very long time. In recent years, non invasive methods were developed in order to …

Accurate determination of the presence and degree of fibrosis in liver is of great importance,
because the prognosis and management strategies for chronic liver disease depend mainly …

Chronic liver diseases result in fibrosis ultimately leading to cirrhosis, a liver end stage
disease with high mortality and life threatening complications such as hepatocellular …

Liver fibrosis evaluation is very important for treatment and prognosis in patients with chronic
liver disease. The “goldstandard” method for liver fibrosis assessment is still considered to …

Accurate assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease is necessary to
determine prognosis, monitor disease progression and formulate treatment decisions …

most affected site and the main lesions are lymph nodes, abscesses, lipoma, lymphangiomas
and thyroglossal cyst. In the case of Page 1 most affected site and the main lesions are lymph …

Because of the limitations and invasive nature of liver biopsy, other noninvasive means are
being tested for the evaluation of diffuse liver diseases. One of these methods is vibration …

Vibration-Controlled Transient Elastography (VCTE¿) based Fibroscan®(Echosens, Paris,
France) is more and more used in clinical practice for the staging of liver fibrosis. Fibroscan® …

Aim Transient elastography (TE) is the gold standard for measurement of liver stiffness. The
usefulness of shear wave elastographies (SWE) is well accepted. However, the …