Preoperative volume calculation of the hepatic venous draining areas with multi-detector row CT in adult living donor liver transplantation: Impact on surgical procedure

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2803-2810

  Frericks, Bernd B J ^a,b,d   Kirchhoff, Timm D ^a   Shin, Hoen Oh ^a   Stamm, Georg ^a   Merkesdal, Sonja ^a   Abe, Takehiko ^a   Schenk, Andrea ^a,c   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a,c   Klempnauer, Jürgen ^a   Galanski, Michael ^a   Nashan, Bjoern ^a,e  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congestion; CT; Drainage; Hepaticveins; Liver; Transplantation; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36849081712     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0274-6     Document Type: Article

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