Complications of liver transplantation: Multimodality imaging approach

Radiographics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1401-1417

  Caiado, Angela Hissae Motoyama ^a   Blasbalg, Roberto ^a   Marcelino, Antonio Sergio Zafred ^a   Pinho, Marco Da Cunha ^a   Chammas, Maria Cristina ^a   Leite, Claudia Da Costa ^a   Cerri, Giovanni Guido ^a   De Oliveira, André Cosme ^a   Bacchella, Telésforo ^a   Machado, Marcel Cerqueira César ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

ADULT; BILE DUCT DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 34948845676     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.275065129     Document Type: Review

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