Correlations between colonic wall thickening in patients with virally induced cirrhosis on CT and clinical status

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 786-791

  Baba, Yasutaka ^a   Hokotate, Hirofumi ^a   Inoue, Hiroki ^a   Nakajo, Masayuki ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Colon; Computed tomography; Liver, diseases

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; GRADING;

CIRRHOSIS; COLON; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGING; CT-SCAN; LIVER DISEASE; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPECTRA'S; VOLUME INDEX; WALL THICKENING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; ASCITES; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DESCENDING COLON; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE WALL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN SIZE; THICKNESS; TRANSVERSE COLON; VARICOSIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 0034820130     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200109000-00019     Document Type: Article

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