Use of CT cholangiography to evaluate the biliary tract after liver transplantation: Initial experience

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1065-1070

  Miller, Gregg A ^a   Yeh, Benjamin M ^a   Breiman, Richard S ^a   Roberts, John P ^a   Qayyum, Aliya ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFANT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BILIARY TRACT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544299035     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20152     Document Type: Article

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