Pneumatosis intestinalis after liver transplantation

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 629-636

  Kwon, Heon Ju ^a   Kim, Kyoung Won ^a   Song, Gi Won ^a   Kim, Dae Yoon ^a   Chung, Sun Young ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a  

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

Author keywords

Complications; CT; Liver transplantation; Pneumatosis intestinalis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; AORTA; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FULMINANT PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDOLENT PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; SURGICAL PATIENT; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80755169672     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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