Clinical and MR imaging features of cryptoglandular and Crohn's fistulas and abscesses

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-74

  Hussain, S M ^a,b   Outwater, E K ^a,c   Joekes, E C ^b   Ulrich, F ^b   Delemarre, H B V M ^b   Bemelman, W A ^b   Li, X ^a   Mitchell, D G ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FISTULA; FISTULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCISION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANUS DISEASES; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECTAL FISTULA;

EID: 0033970965     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002619910014     Document Type: Review

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