Unenhanced spiral CT for the assessment of renal colic. How does limiting the referral base affect the discovery of additional findings not related to urinary tract calculi?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 60-64

  Eshed, I ^a,b   Kornecki, A ^a   Rabin, A ^a   Elias, S ^a   Katz, R ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Calculi; Incidental findings; Renal colic; Unenhanced spiral CT

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATHOLOGY; UROLOGY;

OPTIMAL THERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; URETER STONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLIC; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 0036134143     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0720-048X(01)00404-1     Document Type: Article

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