Contrast-enhanced sonography of the renal transplant using triggered pulse-inversion imaging: Preliminary results

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-314

  Lefèvre, Frédéric ^a   Correas, Jean Michel ^b   Briançon, Serge ^c   Hélénon, Olivier ^b   Kessler, Michèle ^a   Claudon, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Kidney perfusion; Kidney transplantation; Ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GRAFTS; PATIENT MONITORING; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); ULTRASONICS;

PULSE-INVERSION IMAGING (PII);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG INFUSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; RENAL CIRCULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0036226158     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(01)00526-9     Document Type: Article

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