Right lobe estimated blood-free weight for living donor liver transplantation: Accuracy of automated blood-free CT volumetry - Preliminary results

Radiology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 433-440

  Kim, Kyoung Won ^a   Lee, Jeongjin ^b   Lee, Ho ^c   Jeong, Woo Kyoung ^d   Won, Hyung Jin ^a   Shin, Yong Moon ^a   Jung, Dong Hwan ^a   Park, Jeong Ik ^e   Song, Gi Won ^a   Ha, Tae Yong ^a   Moon, Deok Bog ^a   Kim, Ki Hun ^a   Ahn, Chul Soo ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Hanyang University Guri Hospital   (South Korea)

^e Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY; BLOOD VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955167494     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10091897     Document Type: Article

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