Evaluation of the renal venous system on late arterial and venous phase images with MDCT angiography in potential living laparoscopic renal donors

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 539-545

  Kawamoto, Satomi ^a   Lawler, Leo P ^a   Fishman, Elliot K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY ARTERY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY VEIN; LAPAROSCOPY; LUMBAR ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENOUS CIRCULATION; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL CIRCULATION; RENAL VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 15944364800     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.2.01840539     Document Type: Article

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