Non-invasive methods for diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B patients

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

2 Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

Abstract

Non-invasive markers for assessing liver fibrosis have been developed, and they are frequently used in clinical practice. They have been validated in different studies, and some were found to be highly accurate compared with liver biopsies which have always been used as the standard reference method for evaluating the accuracy of non-invasive methods1.The performance of a non-invasive diagnostic method is evaluated by calculation of the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUROC)2.

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