Doppler sonography to diagnose venous congestion in a modified right lobe graft after living donor liver transplantation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1010-1017

  So, Yeon Kim ^a   Kim, Kyoung Won ^a   Seung, Soo Lee ^a   Song, Gi Won ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a   Pyo, Nyun Kim ^a   Sung, Gyu Lee ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Hepatic venous congestion; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Living donor liver transplantation; Modified right lobe graft

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENOUS CONGESTION; ADOLESCENT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER; LIVER VEIN; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 42449117912     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2825     Document Type: Article

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