Imaging in liver transplantation

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 675-683

  Caruso, Settimo ^a   Miraglia, Roberto ^a   Maruzzelli, Luigi ^a   Gruttadauria, Salvatore ^a   Luca, Angelo ^a   Gridelli, Bruno ^a  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; Liver donor; Liver transplantation; Magnetic resonance; Multi detector computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOBENATO DIMEGLUMINA; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODIXANOL; IOVERSOL; MANGAFODIPIR; MEGLUMINE IOTROXATE; SONOVUE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DONOR SELECTION; DRUG EXCRETION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DONOR; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; ORGAN SIZE; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65649124114     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.675     Document Type: Review

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