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Potential clinical application of strain elastography in chronic liver diseases

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A Letter to the Editor to this article was published on 05 April 2018

The Original Article was published on 27 October 2016

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The study was supported from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81672025), Medical Science and Technology Development Foundation of Nanjing (ZDX16004 and YKK16118), Nanjing Science and Technology Development Plan (201503016), Jiangsu Provincial Medical Innovation Team (CXTDA2017005) and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province for Young Scholar (BK20160121) and Nanjing Medical Science and Technique Development Foundation (QRX17121).

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  1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Rui Huang, Jian Wang, Juan Xia & Chao Wu

  2. Department of Intensive Care Unit, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Yingying Hao

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Huang, R., Wang, J., Xia, J. et al. Potential clinical application of strain elastography in chronic liver diseases. J Gastroenterol 53, 795–796 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00535-018-1457-z

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