An assessment of the accuracy of hepatic and splenic size based upon a clinician's physical examination, a radiologist's impression and the actual liver and spleen volumes calculated by CT scanning

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1946-1950

  Sajjad, Shabbar ^a   Garcia, Moises ^a   Malik, Ahmed ^a   Van Thiel, David H ^a,b  

^a ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical examination; Computed tomography; Liver disease; Liver transplant; Liver volume; Spleen volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44449176976     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-0087-8     Document Type: Article

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