Living renal donors: Optimizing the imaging strategy - Decision- and cost-effectiveness analysis

Radiology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-62

  Liem, Ylian S ^a   Kock, Marc C J M ^a   Ijzermans, Jan N M ^a   Weimar, Willem ^a   Visser, Karen ^a   Hunink, M G Myriam ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), comparative studies; Cost effectiveness; Digital subtraction angiography, comparative studies; Kidney, transplantation; Magnetic resonance (MR), comparative studies

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037257048     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2261011893     Document Type: Article

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