Real-time contrast-enhanced sonography in renal transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 17, 2006, Pages 51-54

  Schwenger, Vedat ^a   Hinkel, Ulrich Paul ^a   Nahm, Anna Maria ^a   Morath, Christian ^a   Zeier, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic allograft nephropathy; Real time contrast enhanced sonography; Renal allograft; Resistance index

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33750705596     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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