Fulminant hepatic failure: Observation with serial CT

Radiology

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 379-382

  Itai, Yuji ^a   Sekiyama, Kazuhiko ^b   Ahmadi, Tayeb ^a   Obuchi, Masao ^b   Yoshiba, Makoto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis; Liver, CT; Liver, diseases; Liver, function

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0031037394     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.202.2.9015061     Document Type: Article

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