Clinical significance and renal haemodynamics of incidentally detected retroaortic left renal vein: Assessment with venous Doppler sonography

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 963, 2008, Pages 187-191

  Yagci, A B ^a,b   Tavasli, B ^a   Karabulut, N ^a   Kiroglu, Y ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KIDNEY ARTERY; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; NUTCRACKER PHENOMENON; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; SCROTUM; SPINE; URINALYSIS; VARICOCELE; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN MALFORMATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RENAL ARTERY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINURIA; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; SCROTUM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VARICOCELE;

EID: 40749120535     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/28555221     Document Type: Article

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