Evaluation of MR-angiography for pre-operative assessment of living kidney donors

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 522-526

  Prosst, Ruediger L ^a   Domínguez Fernández, Emilio ^a   Neff, Wolfgang ^a   Braun, Claude ^a   Neufang, Thomas ^a   Post, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessory renal arteries; Living kidney donation; Magnetic resonance tomography; MR angiography; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; URETER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETER;

EID: 22244491001     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2005.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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