MDCT evaluation of central airway and vascular complications of lung transplantation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1046-1056

  Gill, Ritu R ^a   Poh, Angeline C ^a   Camp, Phillip C ^a   Allen, Jean M ^a   Delano, Mark T ^a   Jacobson, Francine L ^a   Hunsaker, Andetta ^a   Colson, Yolonda L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway complications; Lung transplantation; MDCT; Vascular complications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHIAL ANASTOMOTIC DEHISCENCE; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TRACHEOBRONCHOMALACIA; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 53249142508     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2691     Document Type: Article

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