Three-dimensional dynamic contrast-enhanced MR angiography for evaluating recipient vessels in orthotopic liver transplantation

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 476-480

  Bian, Jie ^a   Sha, Lin ^a   Yang, Chao ^a   Sun, Chuan Shu ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Angiography; Liver transplantation; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN ANEURYSM; VEIN DIAMETER;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 55049126158     PISSN: 14993872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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