Portal venous territories within the human liver: An anatomical reappraisal

Anatomical Record

Volumn 291, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 636-642

  Fasel, Jean H D ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

1 2 20 concept; Couinaud; Human liver; Segments

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORROSION CASTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 45849142567     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20658     Document Type: Article

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