Role of CT Angiography in the Preoperative Evaluation for Laparoscopic Nephrectomy

Radiographics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 589-601

  Smith, Patricia A ^a   Ratner, Lloyd E ^a   Lynch, Frank C ^a   Corl, Frank M ^a   Fishman, Elliot K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), angiography, 81.12116; Computed tomography (CT), helical, 81.12115 computed tomography (CT), three dimensional, 81.12117; Computed tomography (CT), volume rendering, 81.12117 Kidney, transplantation, 81.45

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RADIOGRAPHY; RENAL ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032063730     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.18.3.9599384     Document Type: Article

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