Computerized Tomographic Angiography for Renal Donor Evaluation Leads to a Higher Exclusion Rate

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1826-1829

  Strang, Andrew M ^a   Lockhart, Mark E ^b   Kenney, Philip J ^b   Amling, Christopher L ^a   Urban, Donald A ^a   El Galley, Rizk ^a   Burns, John R ^a   Colli, Jan L ^a   Hammontree, Lee N ^a   Kolettis, Peter N ^a  

^a Hugh Kaul Human Genetics Building   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

angiography; digital subtraction; kidney; kidney transplantation; living donors; nephrectomy

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL; RADIOISOTOPE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HORSESHOE KIDNEY; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY PLASMA FLOW; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER DISEASE; LIVING DONOR; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RENAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 34147098563     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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