Prevalence and types of main and right portal vein branching variations on MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 676-681

  Atasoy, Çetin ^a   Özyürek, Elif ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Liver; MDCT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABNORMALITIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748460870     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.0847     Document Type: Article

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