Vascular and nonvascular complications of liver transplants: Sonographic evaluation and correlation with other imaging modalities and findings at surgery and pathology

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 71-85

  Friedewald, Sarah M ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^b   DeJong, M Robert ^c   Hamper, Ulrike M ^b,d  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Ultrasound Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Color Doppler imaging; Complications; Doppler imaging; Liver transplant; Sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CHILD; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BILIARY TRACT; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR DISEASES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0041886410     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013644-200306000-00003     Document Type: Review

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