Detection of biliary complications after orthotopic liver transplantation with MR cholangiography

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1097-1105

  Boraschi, Piero ^a   Braccini, Giovanni ^a   Gigoni, Roberto ^a   Sartoni, Giorgio ^b   Neri, Emanuele ^b   Filipponi, Franco ^b   Mosca, Franco ^b   Bartolozzi, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bile ducts, calculi; Bile ducts, MR; Bile ducts, stenosis or obstruction; Liver, cirrhosis; Liver, transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT STONE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035488290     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(01)00443-X     Document Type: Article

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