Giant Meckel's diverticulum containing enteroliths: Typical CT imaging findings

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 82-84

  Mortelé, Koenraad J ^a,b   Govaere, Fabienne ^b   Vogelaerts, Dirk ^b   Pattyn, Piet ^b   Ros, Pablo R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CT; Diverticulum; Enterolith; Intestine; Meckel's diverticulum

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENTEROLITHIASIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STONE FORMATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; CALCULI; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036357105     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300100967     Document Type: Article

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