background: transient elastography (te) is a new modality for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis caused by various etiologies. this study was conducted to determine the accuracy of te in detecting the different stages of liver fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) patients. methods: medline/pubmed, embase, ovid, cochrane library, american college of physicians (acp) journal club, g...

From the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Department of adiology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin 70300, Israel affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv niversity, Israel). Address reprint requests to Tifha Horne, MD, Institute of uclear Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin 0300, Israel. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 0001-2998/04/3402-0007$30.00/0 ...

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abstract   background: tibial torsion is one of the torsion density which rotating in the longitudes axis of the leg. to measure this deformity, different methods such as radiographic or clinical methods were presented and introduced. methods: in this quasi-experimental study, 30 male athletes were selected randomly. their tibial torsion angle was measured using ct scan, lavand, lokomso, foot p...