Quantitative assessment of power Doppler mapping in the detection of renal allograft complications

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 319-323

  Lu, MingDe ^a   Yin, XiaoYu ^a   Wan, GuangSheng ^a   Xie, XiaoYan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Power Doppler ultrasonography; Renal allograft complications; Renal transplant rejection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0032979836     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0096(199907/08)27:6<319::AID-JCU2>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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