Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT): Contribution of imaging and interventional radiology in preparing the transplantation and managing complications. Part 2: Post-OLT complications and their treatment;Il trapianto ortotopico di fegato (OLT): Il contributo della diagnostica per immagini e della radiologia interventistica nella preparazione al trapianto e nella gestione delle complicanze Parte 2°: Le complicanze dopo OLT e il loro trattamento

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 110, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 433-481

  Golfieri, Rita ^a   Giampalma, Emanuela ^a   Fusco, Francesca ^a   Grazi, Gianluca ^a   Ercolani, Giorgio ^a   Sama, Claudia ^a   Morelli, Cristina ^a   Bolondi, Luigi ^a   Trevisani, Franco ^a   Mazzella, Giuseppe ^a   Ballardini, Giorgio ^a   Pinna, Antonio Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; OKT 3; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

AGNOSIA; ATELECTASIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; BILOMA; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BRAIN DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CHEST INFECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HEMIANOPIA; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFARCTION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

BILE DUCT DISEASES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33644909889     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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