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World J Gastroenterol. Jun 21, 2012; 18(23): 2988-2994
Published online Jun 21, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i23.2988
Published online Jun 21, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i23.2988
Noninvasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis in Egyptian patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection
Shawky Abdelhamid Fouad, Serag Esmat, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt
Dalia Omran, Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt
Laila Rashid, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt
Mohamed H Kobaisi, Department of Pathology, National Institute of Nephrology, Cairo 35789, Egypt
Author contributions: Fouad SA, Esmat S and Omran D designed the study and collected the clinical data; Rashid L performed the laboratory analysis; Kobaisi MH performed the histopathological analysis; Fouad SA wrote the manuscript; Esmat S critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content; all authors contributed to the selection of patients, drafting of the article and analysis of the results, and approved the version to be published.
Correspondence to: Serag Esmat, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt. seragesmat@yahoo.com
Telephone: +20-2-3646394 Fax: +20-2-3657104
Received: August 20, 2011
Revised: October 15, 2011
Accepted: October 21, 2011
Published online: June 21, 2012
Revised: October 15, 2011
Accepted: October 21, 2011
Published online: June 21, 2012
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