Types and frequencies of biliary tract variations associated with a major portal venous anomaly: Analysis with multi-detector row CT cholangiography

Radiology

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 156-166

  Kitami, Masahiro ^a   Takase, Kei ^a   Murakami, Gen ^b   Ko, Saiho ^c   Tsuboi, Masahiro ^a   Saito, Haruo ^a   Higano, Shuichi ^a   Nakajima, Yoshiyuki ^c   Takahashi, Shoki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT MALFORMATION; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29444453961     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2381041783     Document Type: Article

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