Prediction of esophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis: Usefulness of three-dimensional MR elastography with echo-planar imaging technique

Radiology

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 143-153

  Shin, Sung Ui ^a   Lee, Jeong Min ^a   Yu, Mi Hye ^a,c   Yoon, Jeong Hee ^a   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Choi, Byung Ihn ^a   Glaser, Kevin J ^b   Ehman, Richard L ^b  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOXETIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYNAMIC CONTRAST MATERIAL ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEPATIC STIFFNESS; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN STIFFNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84903711345     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14130916     Document Type: Article

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