Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
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Comparative Study
Performance and utility of transient elastography and noninvasive markers of liver fibrosis in primary biliary cirrhosis.
The performance of transient elastography in primary biliary cirrhosis has yet to be fully established. ⋯ Transient elastography proved a simple, reliable and useful method for assessing liver fibrosis in primary biliary cirrhosis, whereas noninvasive surrogate markers proved unsatisfactory in predicting significant fibrosis.