Extrahepatic portal vein stenosis in recipients of living-donor allografts: Doppler sonography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-90

  Lee, James ^a   Ben Ami, Tamar ^a   Yousefzadeh, David ^a   Ramirez, Jose ^a   Funaki, Brian ^a   Rosenblum, Jordan ^a   Piper, James ^a   Whitington, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0029931461     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.167.1.8659427     Document Type: Article

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