Improved detection of renal vascular anatomy using multidetector CT angiography: Is 100% detection possible?

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-17

  Schlunt, Lori B ^a   Harper, Jonathan D ^a   Broome, Dale R ^a   Baron, Pedro W ^a   Watkins, Gregory E ^a   Ojogho, Okechukwu N ^a   Baldwin, D Duane ^a,b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; IOHEXOL; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN DONOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RENAL ARTERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URETER;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846941519     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.0257     Document Type: Article

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