The use of carbon dioxide wedged hepatic venography to identify the portal vein: Comparison with direct catheter portography with iodinated contrast medium and analysis of predictive factors influencing level of opacification

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11 I, 2006, Pages 1771-1779

  Maleux, Geert ^a   Nevens, Frederik ^a   Heye, Sam ^a   Verslype, Chris ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; IODIXANOL; IOHEXOL; VISIPAQUE 270;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIRECT CATHETER PORTOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; UMBILICAL VEIN; WEDGED LIVER VENOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYDROTHORAX; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PORTOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 33751278444     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RVI.0000242185.26944.60     Document Type: Article

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