CEUS: A new imaging approach for postoperative vascular complications after right-lobe LDLT

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 3670-3675

  Luo, Yan ^a   Fan, Yu Ting ^a   Lu, Qiang ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Wen, Tian Fu ^a   Zhang, Zhong Wei ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Living donor liver transplantation; Postoperative complication; Vascular disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349582169     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.3670     Document Type: Article

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