Splenic impedance indices: A useful method to monitor patients after liver transplantation?

Hepatology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 674-678

  Bolognesi, Massimo ^a,c   Sacerdoti, David ^a   Bombonato, Giancarlo ^b   Angeli, Paolo ^b   Gerunda, Giorgio ^a   Merenda, Roberto ^c   Volpin, Roberta ^c   Iemmolo, Rosamaria ^b   Gatta, Angelo ^c  

^a Clinica Medica V   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Chirurgia Generale I   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPEDANCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SPLEEN CELL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

EID: 0031891518     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510270306     Document Type: Article

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