The segments of the hepatic veins - Is there a spatial correlation to the Couinaud liver segments?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-255

  Fischer, Lars ^a,c   Thorn, Matthias ^b   Neumann, Jan O ^a   Schöbinger, Max ^b   Heimann, Tobias ^b   Grenacher, Lars ^a   Meinzer, Hans P ^b   Friess, Helmut ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Couinaud segments; CS; left inferior subsegment; left main segment; left subsegment of the middle hepatic vein; left superior subsegment; LIS; LMS; LS; LSS; middle main segment; MMS; portal vein segments; PVS; right subsegment of the middle hepatic vein; RMS; RS

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SURGERY;

COUINAUD SEGMENTS (CS); HEPATIC SURGERIES; PORTAL VEIN SEGMENTS (PVS); VEINS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER SIZE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12444327327     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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