Assessment of fibroblast growth factor 19 as a non-invasive serum marker for hepatocellular carcinoma
Ghada Abdelrahman Mohamed, Ehab Hasan Nashaat, Hadeer Mohamed Fawzy, Ahmed Mohamed ElGhandour
Ghada Abdelrahman Mohamed, Ehab Hasan Nashaat, Hadeer Mohamed Fawzy, Ahmed Mohamed ElGhandour, Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11591, Egypt
Author contributions: Mohamed GA, Nashaat EH, and ElGhandour AM designed the study; Fawzy HM participated in the acquisition of the data; Mohamed GA, Nashaat EH, Fawzy HM, and ElGhandour AM participated in the analysis and interpretation of the data; Mohamed GA, Nashaat EH, Fawzy HM, and ElGhandour AM revised the article critically for important intellectual content; Mohamed GA wrote the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board of Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was obtained from every participant before the enrollment into the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors have nothing to disclose.
Data sharing statement: The statistical code and dataset are available from the corresponding author at
ghadaabdelrahman@med.asu.edu.eg. The participants gave informed consent for the data sharing.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Ghada Abdelrahman Mohamed, MD, Lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, El Khalifa El-Maamon St., Abbassia, Cairo 11591, Egypt.
ghadaabdelrahman@med.asu.edu.eg
Received: October 19, 2021
Peer-review started: October 19, 2021
First decision: December 3, 2021
Revised: December 19, 2022
Accepted: February 20, 2022
Article in press: February 20, 2022
Published online: March 27, 2022
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