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Definition of significant Fibrosis at biopsy

Posted by Poynard on 13 Dec 2011 at 10:38 GMT

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The definition of significant biopsy should be clearly specified here. Ideally the same stage should be used for biopsy and FibroTest. If the cutoff of 0.58 is taken for FibroTest this is METAVIR F3; Stage F2 correspond to 0.48 for FibroTest.

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