Value of three-dimensional gradient-echo magnetic resonance cholangiography in diagnosis choledocholithiasis

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 265-269

  Rawat, Brijendra ^a   Loewy, John ^a  

^a ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

bile ducts; choledocholithiasis; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0029840431     PISSN: 00082902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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