TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Sayed Ismail Mohamed AU - Hussein Okasha , AU - Nagwa Ramadan , AU - Taher Elzanaty , TI - Non invasive evaluation of hepatic fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C using elastography / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Sayed Ismail Mohamed , KW - Hepatitis C virus KW - Liver cirrhosis KW - Role of liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - HCV is a major cause of acute hepatitis and chronic liver disease including cirrhosis and liver cancer . Globally an estimated 170 million persons are chronically infected with HCV and 3 to 4 million persons are newly infected each year . More than one million of people world wide die annually of hepatocellular carcinoma the third highest cause of death due to malignant neoplasm UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -