Validity and feasibility of transient elastography for the transplanted liver in the peritransplantation period

Transplantation

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-109

  Inoue, Yosuke ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Ohtsu, Hiroshi ^b   Taguri, Masataka ^b   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^c   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastography; Graft; Liver; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; THICKNESS; TRANSEINT ELASTOGRAPHY; VALIDITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651036791     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181aacb7f     Document Type: Article

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