Preoperative assessment of thymic veins on multidetector row CT: Optimization of contrast material volume

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 202-210

  Natsag, Javzandulam ^a   Tomiyama, Noriyuki ^a   Inoue, Atsuo ^a   Mihara, Naoki ^a   Johkoh, Takeshi ^a   Sumikawa, Hiromitsu ^a   Honda, Osamu ^a   Shiono, Hiroyuki ^a   Okumura, Meinoshin ^a   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Thymectomy; Thymic tumor; Thymic vein; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; THYMIC VEIN; THYMOMA; THYMUS CYST; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN; VIDEORECORDING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THYMUS;

ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548089496     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0125-7     Document Type: Article

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