Macrovesicular hepatic steatosis in living liver donors: Use of CT for quantitative and qualitative assessment

Radiology

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-112

  Park, Seong Ho ^a   Kim, Pyo Nyun ^a   Kim, Kyoung Won ^a   Lee, Sang Won ^a   Yoon, Seong Eon ^a   Park, Sung Won ^b   Ha, Hyun Kwon ^a   Lee, Moon Gyu ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a   Yu, Eun Sil ^a   Cho, Eun Yoon ^c  

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

^b Eulji General Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; STANDARD;

ADULT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645112815     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2391050361     Document Type: Review

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