Changes in Hepatic Venous Morphology With Cirrhosis on MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1085-1092

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Zhang, Xiao Ming ^a   Prowda, Joan C ^b   Zhang, Hong Lei ^c   Henry, Carolina Sant'Anna ^c   Shih, George ^c   Emond, Jean C ^b   Prince, Martin R ^b,c,d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Gadolinium; Hepatic vein; Liver transplantation; MRA; MRI

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN DONOR; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLENIC VEIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN DIAMETER; DONOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 66149101653     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21718     Document Type: Article

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