TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Refaat Gohar AU - Ayman Yousry Abdalrahim , AU - Mohamed Aly Ezz Alarab , AU - Rabab Fouad Emam Omar , TI - Evaluation of fibroscan as a predictor of risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis C patients / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Refaat Gohar , KW - Fibroscan KW - HCC KW - HCV N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - The degree of liver fibrosis is the strongest indicator of risk for hepatocellular carcinoma ( HCC ) development . Recently developed transient elastoraphy ( Fibroscan , Echosens , France ) noninvasively measures liver stiffness , and the correlation between the stiffness and liver fibrosis stage has been validated . In this cross - sectional study , we aimed to investigate the relationship between liver stiffness and HCC presence ER -