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Fibroscan was a rating of 5 or 'not significant fibrosis' yet latest ultrasound reported 'mild coarse texture'? did somebody screw up?

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Dr. Matt Wachsman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Neither of these is: a biopsy. Ultrasound is not that good of a test...Fibroscan misses about half of the moderate fibrosis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17850410 so, yeah, probably

Answered 8/9/2014

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