Suture granulomas: Sonography enables a correct preoperative diagnosis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 343-350

  Rettenbacher, Thomas ^a   MacHeiner, Peter ^a   Hollerweger, Alois ^a   Gritzmann, Norbert ^a   Weismann, Christian ^c   Todoroff, Boris ^b  

^a Depts of Radiol and Nucl Medicine   (Austria)

^b KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Austria)

^c St Johanns Spital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Foreign bodies; Granuloma; Suture granuloma; Ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; SURGERY; TRANSDUCERS;

SONOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUTURE; TRANSDUCER;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURES;

EID: 0035026719     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00364-1     Document Type: Article

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