Body mass index as as a predictor of hepatic steatosis in living liver donors

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 409-414

  Rinella, Mary E ^a   Alonso, Estella ^a   Rao, Sambasiva ^a   Whitington, Peter ^a   Fryer, Jonathan ^a   Abecassis, Michael ^a   Superina, Riccardo ^a   Flamm, Steven L ^a   Blei, Andres T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FATTY LIVER; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035000056     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2001.23787     Document Type: Article

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