Liver involvement in a large cohort of patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: Echo-color-Doppler vs multislice computed tomography study

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 811-820

  Buonamico, Paolo ^a   Suppressa, Patrizia ^a   Lenato, Gennaro M ^a   Pasculli, Giovanna ^a   D'Ovidio, Francesco ^a   Memeo, Maurizio ^b   Scardapane, Arnaldo ^b   Sabbà, Carlo ^a  

^a University Interdepartmental HHT Center   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterio venous malformations; Color spots; Echo color Doppler; HHT; Hypervascularization; Liver shunts; Multislice CT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 40949098995     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2007.12.022     Document Type: Article

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