Imaging appearance in acute liver failure: Correlation with clinical and pathology findings

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1987-1995

  Romero, Miriam ^a   Palmer, Suzanne L ^a   Kahn, Jeffrey A ^a   Ihde, Lauren ^a   Lin, Leah Muhm ^b   Kosco, Anne ^b   Shinar, Ron ^c   Ghandforoush, Aslan ^c   Chan, Linda S ^a   Petrovic, Lydia M ^a   Sher, Linda S ^a   Fong, Tse Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute hepatic failure; Liver surface nodularity; Portal hypertension; Radiology

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; GLOBULIN;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOGRAPHY; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905583148     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-014-3106-6     Document Type: Article

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