MRI-guided Biopsy to Correlate Tissue Specimens with MR Elastography Stiffness Readings in Liver Transplants

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1121-1126

  Perumpail, Ryan B ^a   Levitsky, Josh ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Lee, Victoria S ^a   Karp, Jennifer ^a   Jin, Ning ^a   Yang, Guang Yu ^a   Bolster, Bradley D ^b   Shah, Saurabh ^b   Zuehlsdorff, Sven ^b   Nemcek, Albert A ^a   Larson, Andrew C ^a   Miller, Frank H ^a   Omary, Reed A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided biopsy; Liver biopsy; Liver transplantation; Magnetic resonance elastography; MRI guidance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER STIFFNESS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84864827271     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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