Complications of orthotopic liver transplantation: Spectrum of findings with helical CT

Radiographics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1085-1102

  Quiroga, Sergi ^a   Sebastià, M Carmen ^a   Margarit, Carlos ^a   Castells, Lluís ^a   Boyé, Rosa ^a   Alvarez Castells, Agustí ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), helical, 76.12115; Liver, CT, 76.12115; Liver, transplantation, 76.451, 76.458

Indexed keywords

BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0035461487     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.21.5.g01se061085     Document Type: Article

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