CT in the study of thoracic-pulmonary complications after liver transplantation;La Tomografia Computerizzata nello studio delle complicanze toraco-polmonari dopo trapianto del fegato

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 444-452

  Robiati, Sara ^a   Veltri, Andrea ^a   Martina, Maria Cristina ^a   Gariazzo, Giorgio ^a   Cerutti, Elisabetta ^b   Ottobrelli, Antonio ^c   Gandini, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b A O S Giovanni Battista   (Italy)

^c Ambulatori di Gastroenterologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liver, orthotopic transplantation; Lungs, complications; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ATELECTASIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034570246     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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