Diagnosis of the nutcracker syndrome with color Doppler sonography: Correlation with flow patterns on retrograde left renal venography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-43

  Takebayashi, Shigeo ^a   Ueki, Teiichiroh ^a   Ikeda, Naoya ^a   Fujikawa, Atsushi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY PHLEBOGRAPHY; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; NUTCRACKER SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 0032961377     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.172.1.9888735     Document Type: Article

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