Abdominal lymphadenopathy in β-thalassemia: MRI features and correlation with liver iron overload and posttransfusion chronic hepatitis C

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 219-224

  Papakonstantinou, Olympia ^a,b   Maris, Thomas G ^a   Kostaridou, Stavroula ^b   Ladis, Vasilios ^b   Vasiliadou, Artemis ^c   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Thalassemia Unit   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIDEROSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPLEEN; ABDOMEN; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 24644450586     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.1.01850219     Document Type: Article

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