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Original Article

Does transient elastography correlate with liver fibrosis in patients with PSC? Laennec score-based analysis of explanted livers

Marcin KrawczykDepartment of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany; ;Laboratory of Metabolic Liver Diseases, Centre for Preclinical Research, Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Joanna LigockaDepartment of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Mariusz LigockiLiver and Internal Medicine Unit, Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Joanna Raszeja-WyszomirskaLiver and Internal Medicine Unit, Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Małgorzata MilkiewiczDepartment of Medical Biology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland; Correspondence[email protected]
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Grzegorz SzpareckiDepartment of Pathology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Tomasz IlczukDepartment of Pathology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Barbara GórnickaDepartment of Pathology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Krzysztof ZieniewiczDepartment of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Marek KrawczykDepartment of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;
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Frank LammertDepartment of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany;
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Piotr MilkiewiczLiver and Internal Medicine Unit, Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ;Translational Medicine Group, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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Pages 1407-1412 | Received 21 Jun 2017, Accepted 16 Aug 2017, Published online: 29 Aug 2017

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