Clinical relevance of retrograde inferior vena cava or hepatic vein opacification during contrast-enhanced CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1227-1232

  Yeh, Benjamin M ^a   Kurzman, Philip ^a,b   Foster, Elyse ^a   Qayyum, Aliya ^a   Joe, Bonnie ^a   Coakley, Fergus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER VEIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 16544369440     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.5.1831227     Document Type: Article

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