Hepatic arterial diameter measured with US: Adjunct for US diagnosis of biliary atresia

Radiology

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 549-555

  Woo, Sun Kim ^a   Cheon, Jung Eun ^a   Byung, Jae Youn ^a   Yoo, So Young ^a   Wha, Young Kim ^a   Kim, In One ^a   Kyung, Mo Yeon ^a   Jeong, Kee Seo ^a   Park, Kwi Won ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPARATUS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC ARTERY DIAMETER TO PORTAL VEIN DIAMETER RATIO; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEWBORN; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PARAMETER; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BILIARY ATRESIA; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35348931670     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2452061093     Document Type: Article

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