Hepatic arterial stenosis assessed with Doppler US after liver transplantation: Frequent false-positive diagnoses with tardus parvus waveform and value of adding optimal peak systolic velocity cutoff

Radiology

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 884-891

  Park, Yang Shin ^a,b   Kim, Kyoung Won ^b   Lee, So Jung ^b   Lee, Jeongjin ^c   Jung, Dong Hwan ^b   Song, Gi Won ^b   Ha, Tae Yong ^b   Moon, Deok Bog ^b   Kim, Ki Hun ^b   Ahn, Chul Soo ^b   Hwang, Shin ^b   Lee, Sung Gyu ^b  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

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

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERIAL STENOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TARDUS PARVUS WAVEFORM; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860408946     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11102257     Document Type: Article

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