Obstruction at middle hepatic venous tributaries in modified right lobe grafts after living-donor liver transplantation: Diagnosis with contrast-enhanced US

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 617-626

  Park, Yang Shin ^a,b   Kim, Kyoung Won ^a   Kim, So Yeon ^a   Lee, So Jung ^a   Lee, Jeongjin ^c   Kim, Jin Hee ^a   Lee, Jong Seok ^a   Kim, Hyoung Jung ^a   Song, Gi Won ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a  

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

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; SONOVUE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEPATIC VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867912886     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12112042     Document Type: Article

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