Fungal liver infection in immunocompromised patients: Depiction with multiphasic contrast-enhanced helical CT

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 97-105

  Metser, Ur ^a,b   Haider, Masoom A ^a   Dill Macky, Marcus ^a   Atri, Mostafa ^a   Lockwood, Gina ^a   Minden, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER INJURY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 15944376900     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2351031210     Document Type: Article

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