Multi-detector row CT in evaluation of 94 living renal donors by readers with varied experience

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 905-910

  Sahani, Dushyant V ^a   Rastogi, Neeraj ^a   Greenfield, Alan C ^a   Kalva, Sanjeeva P ^a   Ko, Dicken ^a   Saini, Sanjay ^a   Harris, Gordon ^a   Mueller, Peter R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL; IOPAMIDOL; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; URETER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18844461270     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2353040496     Document Type: Article

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