Orthotopic liver transplantation: Evaluation with MR cholangiography

Radiology

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 715-722

  Fulcher, Ann S ^a   Turner, Mary Ann ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile ducts, calculi; Bile ducts, MR; Bile ducts, stenosis or obstruction; Liver, transplantation; Magnetic resonance (MR), half Fourier imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHILD; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE FORMATION;

EID: 0033003970     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.211.3.r99jn17715     Document Type: Article

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