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Reply to Letter to the Editor: “Liver stiffness by two-dimensional shear wave elastography for screening high-risk varices in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease”

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37 Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

    Yuling Yan & Li Yang

  2. Sichuan University-University of Oxford Huaxi Joint for Gastrointestinal Cancer Centre, Chengdu, China

    Yuling Yan & Li Yang

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Yan, Y., Yang, L. Reply to Letter to the Editor: “Liver stiffness by two-dimensional shear wave elastography for screening high-risk varices in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease”. Eur Radiol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-024-10698-4

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