Precaval Right Renal Arteries: Prevalence and Morphologic Associations at Spiral CT

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 429-433

  Yeh, Benjamin M ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a   Meng, Maxwell V ^b   Breiman, Richard S ^a   Stoller, Marshall L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; CT; Hydronephrosis; Kidney; Renal arteries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 1642458202     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2302021030     Document Type: Review

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