Improved detectability of the hepatic arterial tree in liver transplantation by perfusional angiosonography [2]

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 854-856

  Piscaglia, F ^a   Gaiani, S ^a   Leoni, S ^a   Nardo, B ^a   Vivarelli, M ^a   Golfieri, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ASCITES; DEVASCULARIZATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LETTER; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PERFUSIONAL ANGIOSONOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL ERROR; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULARIZATION;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 14644426576     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2004.08.006     Document Type: Letter

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