Preoperative Imaging in Adult-to-Adult Living Related Liver Transplant Donors: What Surgeons Want to Know

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-157

  Limanond, Piyaporn ^a   Raman, Steven S ^a   Ghobrial, R Mark ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a   Saab, Sammy ^a   Lu, David S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography; Liver; Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; HIGH-FIELD; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSPLANTATION; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CADAVER DONOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642381375     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200403000-00001     Document Type: Review

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