Journal of Cancer

Using liver biopsy as gold standard, APRI score and FibroScan performed equally well in predicting advanced fibrosis. More important, the current study found that an APRI cut-off score of 0.5 can be used as a screening tool for FibroScan, as the previously proposed cut-off score of 1.0 missed up to 48% of patients with advanced fibrosis. ................
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