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From: The usefulness of noninvasive liver stiffness assessment using shear-wave elastography for predicting liver fibrosis in children

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Flowchart illustrating the selection of the study population. We retrospectively reviewed the picture archiving and communication system database for the period between August 2016 and March 2020. Of the 44 potential candidates who underwent two-dimensional shear-wave elastography (SWE) prior to liver biopsy, 14 were excluded for the following reasons: insufficient quality of SWE (n = 6), use of different probes (n = 4), and use of different US machines (n = 4)

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BMC Medical Imaging

ISSN: 1471-2342

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