Clinical value of MRC in the follow-up of liver transplant patients with a choledochojejunostomy

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 336-343

  Ott, R ^a   Greess, H ^a   Aichinger, U ^a   Fellner, F ^a   Herold, C ^a   Yedibela, S ^a   Bussenius Kammerer, M ^a   Muller V ^a   Hohenberger, W ^a   Reck, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biliary complications; Choledochojejunostomy; Hepatic transplantation; Magnetic resonance cholangiography

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; AGED; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT BYPASS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0036591002     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-001-0102-z     Document Type: Article

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