Hepatic attenuation differences associated with obstruction of the portal or hepatic veins in patients with hepatic abscess

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1015-1023

  Lee, Kyoung Ho ^a   Man, Joon Koo ^b   Jeong, Jun Yong ^b   Kim, Young Jun ^b   Lee, Hak Jong ^a   Park, Seong Ho ^c   Choi, Byung Ihn ^b  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 32944481566     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1254     Document Type: Article

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