Flow direction of ascending lumbar veins on magnetic resonance angiography and venography: Would "descending lumbar veins" be a more precise name physiologically?

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 749-753

  Morita, Satoru ^a   Kimura, Tomo ^b   Masukawa, Ai ^c   Saito, Naoko ^c   Suzuki, Kazufumi ^c   Mitsuhashi, Norio ^c  

^a Saiseikai Kurihashi Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascending lumbar vein; Direction; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRA; MRV

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING LUMBAR VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING LUMBAR VEIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC VEIN; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBUS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VEINS;

EID: 35948965278     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9166-0     Document Type: Article

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