Association between a focal spared area in the fatty liver and intrahepatic efferent blood flow from the gallbladder wall: Evaluation with color Doppler sonography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1249-1253

  Tochio, Hitoshi ^a   Kudo, Masatoshi ^b   Okabe, Yoshihiro ^a   Morimoto, Yoshito ^a   Tomita, Shusuke ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0032707378     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.172.5.10227498     Document Type: Article

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