How I do it: Pre-operative CT scanning for adult living right lobe liver transplantation

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1423-1431

  Kruskal, Jonathan B ^a   Raptopoulos, Vassilios ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT scanning; Liver; Preoperative; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036598379     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-001-1223-z     Document Type: Review

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