Pediatric liver transplantation: A pictorial essay of early and late complications

Radiographics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1187-1209

  Berrocal, Teresa ^a   Parrón, Manuel ^a   Álvarez Luque, Arturo ^a   Prieto, Consuelo ^a   Santamaría, Manuel López ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRICS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 33746810521     PISSN: 15271323     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.264055081     Document Type: Review

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