Ultrasound measured renal length versus low dose CT volume in predicting single kidney glomerular filtration rate

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 77, Issue 921, 2004, Pages 759-764

  Widjaja, E ^a   Oxtoby, J W ^a   Hale, T L ^a   Jones, P W ^a   Harden, P N ^b   McCall, I W ^a  

^a North Staffordshire NHS ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY ANGIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; ORGAN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 6344229756     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/24988054     Document Type: Article

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