Is US a suitable method to measure intraabdominal fat thickness? Comparison with CT;L'ecografia èuna metodica adeguata per la valutazione dello spessore del grasso intraaddominale? Confronte con la Tomografia Computerizzata

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 329-334

  Cucchi, Emanuele ^a   Piatti, Pier Marco ^a   Orena, Corrado ^a   Pontiroli, Antonio Ettore ^a   Martino, Emanuela ^a   Paesano, Pier Luigi ^a   Pozza, Guido ^a   Del Maschio, Alessandro ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT; Obesity, subcutaneous fat; US; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031242821     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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