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SUBMITTER: Luckhoff HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4438494 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lückhoff Hilmar K HK Kruger Frederik C FC Kotze Maritha J MJ
World journal of hepatology 20150501 9
Heterogeneity in clinical presentation, histological severity, prognosis and therapeutic outcomes characteristic of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) necessitates the development of scientifically sound classification schemes to assist clinicians in stratifying patients into meaningful prognostic subgroups. The need for replacement of invasive liver biopsies as the standard method whereby NAFLD is diagnosed, graded and staged with biomarkers of histological severity injury led to the dev ...[more]