Stereological evaluation of liver volume in living donor liver transplantation using MDCT via the Cavalieri method

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 693-698

  Duran, Cihan ^a   Aydinli, Bulent ^b   Tokat, Yaman ^a   Yuzer, Yildiray ^a   Kantarci, Mecit ^b   Akgun, Metin ^b   Polat, Kamil Yalcin ^b   Unal, Bünyami ^b   Killi, Refik ^a   Atamanalp, S Selcuk ^b  

^a ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STEREOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249032087     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21132     Document Type: Article

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