Venous variants and anomalies on routine abdominal multi-detector row CT

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 267-278

  Koc, Zafer ^a   Ulusan, Serife ^a   Oguzkurt, Levent ^a   Tokmak, Naime ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abdominal vein variant; Anatomy; Computed tomography; Hepatic vein; Inferior vena cava; Portal vein; Renal vein

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL VEIN VARIANT; ANATOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; INFERIOR VENA CAVA; PORTAL VEINS; RENAL VEIN;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RENAL VEINS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 33846259384     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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