Terminal part of thoracic duct: High-resolution US imaging

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 897-904

  Seeger, Marcus ^a   Bewig, Burkhard ^a   Günther, Rainer ^a   Schafmayer, Clemens ^a   Vollnberg, Bernd ^a   Rubin, Diana ^a   Hoell, Christine ^a   Schreiber, Stefan ^a   Fölsch, Ulrich R ^a   Hampe, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC DUCT; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHYLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC DUCT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 70349299977     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2531082036     Document Type: Article

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