Anatomic variations of the hepatic arteries in 250 patients studied with 64-row CT angiography

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2765-2770

  Cecco, Carlo Nicola ^a,b,c   Ferrari, Riccardo ^a   Rengo, Marco ^a   Paolantonio, Pasquale ^a   Vecchietti, Fabrizio ^a   Laghi, Andrea ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial anomalies; CT angiography; Digital subtraction angiography; Hepatic arteries; Hepatobiliary imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350173300     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1458-7     Document Type: Article

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