Noninvasive Imaging of Liver Transplant Complications

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-206

  Saad, Wael E A ^a   Lin, Edward ^a   Ormanoski, Margaret ^a   Darcy, Michael D ^b   Rubens, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; computed tomographic angiography; Doppler ultrasound; liver transplant; magnetic resonance angiography; stenosis

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 37049002635     PISSN: 10892516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.tvir.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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