Abstract:INTRODUCTION: Despite the wide availability of the use of ultrasonic elastography to assess fibrosis in patients with diffuse liver diseases, this method didn’t have a high specificity for diagnosing intermediate stages of fibrosis.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic effectiveness of perfusion computed tomography (PCT) for detecting intermediate stages of fibrosis in patients with diffuse liver diseases.MATERIALS AND METHODS: PCT of the liver was performed in 73 patients (37 men, 36 women, mean age 47.2±4.4 … Show more
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