Rex shunt preoperative imaging: Diagnostic capability of imaging modalities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kwan, Sharon W ^a   Fidelman, Nicholas ^a   Durack, Jeremy C ^a   Roberts, John P ^a   Kerlan, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REX SHUNT; SHUNTING; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR PATENCY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; VASCULAR GRAFTING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960183076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022222     Document Type: Article

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