Prospective study comparing three-dimensional computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for evaluating the renal vascular anatomy in potential living renal donors

BJU International

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1105-1108

  Bhatti, Aftab A ^a   Chugtai, Aamir ^a   Haslam, Philip ^a   Talbot, David ^a   Rix, David A ^a   Soomro, Naeem A ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Angiography; CT; Donor nephrectomy; MRI; Renal vascular

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY ARTERY; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY VEIN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27444435487     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05809.x     Document Type: Article

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