Triangular cord sign in biliary atresia: Does it have prognostic and medicolegal significance?

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 621-

  Saxena, Akshay K ^a   Mittal, Vinayak ^a   Sodhi, Kushaljit S ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFUSION CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; LETTER; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BILIARY ATRESIA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84862487894     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12112606     Document Type: Letter

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