Imaging diagnosis of hepatic metastases of pancreatic carcinomas: Significance of transient wedge-shaped contrast enhancement mimicking arterioportal shunt

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 437-443

  Gabata, Toshifumi ^a   Matsui, Osamu ^a   Terayama, Noboru ^a   Kobayashi, Satoshi ^a   Sanada, Junichiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterioportal shunt; CT; Liver metastasis; MRI; Pancreatic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER ARTERIOGRAPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PORTAL SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44049086286     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-007-9280-7     Document Type: Article

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