Biochemical markers for non-invasive assessment of primary biliary cirrhosis

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 06:15 in Health & Medicine

Needle liver biopsy has been used as the 'gold standard' for the assessment of liver fibrosis and disease stage of PBC. Due to possible complications of this procedure, for both, the physician and the patient, the decision to proceed with liver biopsy is not trivial one. So, scientists tend to introduce non-invasive methods for assessment of liver diseases stages...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net