Renal Infarction in a Patient With Spontaneous Dissection of Segmental Arteries: Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 788-791

  Yamanouchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Kei ^b   Noda, Kazushige ^b   Tomori, Koji ^b   Kinoshita, Takahiro ^b  

^a Shinfuji Hospital   (Japan)

^b Chigasaki Tokushukai Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FLANK PAIN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY INFARCTION; MALE; NAUSEA; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; INFARCTION; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 52049083017     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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