Multidetector Row Computed Tomography Evaluation of Potential Living Laparoscopic Renal Donors: The Story So Far

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 102-114

  Namasivayam, Saravanan ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Small, William C ^a   Torres, William E ^a   Mittal, Pardeep K ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CADAVER DONOR; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RENAL ARTERY; STONE FORMATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; UROLITHIASIS; VEIN MALFORMATION;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 33646414829     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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