Pseudomembranous colitis: CT evaluation of 26 cases

Radiology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 57-60

  Fishman, Elliot K ^a,b   Kavuru, Madhav ^a   Jones, Bronwyn ^a   Kuhlman, Janet E ^a   Merine, Dimitri S ^a   Lillimoe, Keith D ^a   Siegelman, Stanley S ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Colitis, pseudomembranous, 75.263; Colon, CT, 75.1211; Colon, diseases, 75.263

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0025738564     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.180.1.2052723     Document Type: Review

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