MODERN NON-INVASIVE METHODS OF DIAGNOSTICS OF LIVER FIBROSIS IN CHILDREN
Keywords:
children, ultrasound examinations, diagnostics of liver fibrosis, fibroelastometry, quantitative assessment of liver parenchyma structure.Abstract
The review presents modern non-invasive methods for diagnosing liver
fibrosis in children. Biochemical diagnostic tests for fibrosis are described, the structure of
the liver parenchyma and the severity of fibrosis are assessed using traditional ultrasound
techniques and non-invasive quantitative assessment of the liver structure: Acoustic
Structure Quantification (ASQ) with determination of the density index. It is shown that
ASQ allows obtaining valuable information about the acoustic structure of liver tissue in
visual, parametric and numerical formats, which improves the quality, level and clinical
significance of diagnostics.
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