Staging of portal hypertension and portosystemic shunts using dynamic nuclear medicine investigations

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 3841-3848

  Dragoteanu, Mircea ^a   Balea, Ioan A ^a   Dina, Liliana A ^a   Piglesan, Cecilia D ^a   Grigorescu, Ioana ^a   Tamas, Stefan ^a   Cotul, Sabin O ^a  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*  (Romania)

Author keywords

Angioscintigraphy; Chronic liver disease; Per rectal portal scintigraphy; Portal hypertension; Portosystemic shunts

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CIRCULATION TIME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PER RECTAL PORTAL SCINTIGRAPHY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; STAGING;

EID: 54349102805     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.3841     Document Type: Article

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