Blunt bowel and mesenteric injury: Diagnostic performance of CT signs

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 706-712

  Breen, David J ^a   Janzen, Dennis L ^a   Zwirewich, Charles V ^a   Nagy, Alexander G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bowel, wounds and injuries; Computed tomography; Mesentery, wounds and injuries; Trauma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; TUMORS;

BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA; BOWEL, WOUND AND INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTRAPERITONEAL; MESENTERY, WOUND AND INJURY; ORGAN INJURIES; TRAUMA; WALL THICKENING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

AIR;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE WALL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MESENTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031445301     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199709000-00005     Document Type: Article

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