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FibroScan Ultrasound Offers Painless Way to Help Detect Liver Diseases

Analyzing the liver is difficult and problematic for patients. The standard has been a biopsy, which involves going under anesthesia to get a tissue sample. If someone has a chronic issue, like liver diseases, they need repeated biopsies but advances in technology have created a painless option, the FibroScan Ultrasound.  Read More >

WINK News covers NCH’s new, painless ultrasound-FibroScan (Liver Elastrography) that creates a view of what’s going on inside the liver.