Normal kidney size and its influencing factors - A 64-slice MDCT study of 1.040 asymptomatic patients

BMC Urology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Glodny, Bernhard ^a   Unterholzner, Verena ^a   Taferner, Bernadette ^a   Hofmann, Karin J ^a   Rehder, Peter ^a   Strasak, Alexander ^a   Petersen, Johannes ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CYST; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFARCTION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY PELVIS; KIDNEY SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITION; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76149102000     PISSN: 14712490     EISSN: 14712490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-9-19     Document Type: Article

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