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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Toyama University Hospital, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan

    Kazuto Tajiri, Kengo Kawai & Toshiro Sugiyama

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Tajiri, K., Kawai, K. & Sugiyama, T. Reply to “Letter to Editor submitted by Rui Huang et al. entitled potential clinical application of strain elastography in chronic liver diseases”. J Gastroenterol 53, 797–798 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00535-018-1461-3

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