Update on Hepatobiliary Imaging

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal Practice

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 439-467

  Gaschen, Lorrie ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary obstruction; Computed tomographic angiography; Contrast enhanced harmonic ultrasound; Portal scintigraphy; Portosystemic shunt; Tissue sampling

Indexed keywords

AMYLOIDOSIS; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT CYST; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLESTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIPIDOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HYPERPLASIA; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; LIVER DISEASES;

EID: 67649400562     PISSN: 01955616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2009.02.005     Document Type: Review

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