Role of abdominal sonography in the preoperative diagnosis of extrahepatic biliary atresia in infants younger than 90 days

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Mittal, Vinayak ^a   Saxena, Akshay K ^a   Sodhi, Kushaljit S ^a   Thapa, Babu R ^a   Rao, Katragadda L N ^a   Das, Ashim ^a   Khandelwal, Niranjan ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Biliary atresia; Hepatobiliary imaging; Pediatric imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFANT; LIVER SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; NEWBORN;

BILIARY ATRESIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79957835043     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5180     Document Type: Article

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