Postoperative imaging in liver transplantation: What radiologists should know

Radiographics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 339-351

  Singh, Ajay K ^a   Nachiappan, Arun C ^a   Verma, Hetal A ^b   Uppot, Raul N ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a   Saini, Sanjay ^a   Boland, Giles W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77950169387     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.302095124     Document Type: Article

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