Various causes of hepatic capsular retraction: CT and MR findings

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 75, Issue 900, 2002, Pages 994-1002

  Yang, D M ^a   Kim, H S ^a,a   Cho, S W ^a  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BENIGN TUMOR; BILE DUCT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATTY LIVER; HEMANGIOMA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LIVER CAPSULE RETRACTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TUMOR; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036966465     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.75.900.750994     Document Type: Review

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