Enlargement of the common bile duct in patients with acute graft-versus-host disease: What does it mean?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ketelsen, Dominik ^a   Vogel, Wichard ^a   Bethge, Wolfgang ^a   Werner, Matthias ^a   Dietz, Klaus ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Horger, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cholestasis; Common bile duct; Diameter; Gastrointestinal; Graft versus host disease; Liver

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMMON BILE DUCT DILATATION; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BILIRUBIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTRAST MEDIA; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69949099927     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1953     Document Type: Article

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