Acute liver rejection: Accuracy and predictive values of Doppler US measurements - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 651-658

  Bolognesi, Massimo ^a   Sacerdoti, David ^a   Mescoli, Claudia ^a   Nava, Valeria ^a   Bombonato, Giancarlo ^a   Merkel, Carlo ^a   Merenda, Roberto ^a   Angeli, Paolo ^a   Rugge, Massimo ^a   Gatta, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PARAMETER; PILOT STUDY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BIOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

EID: 20244366988     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2352040506     Document Type: Article

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