Transabdominal sonography of the gastrointestinal tract

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1748-1761

  Gritzmann, Norbert ^a   Hollerweger, Alois ^a   Macheiner, Peter ^a   Rettenbacher, Thomas ^a  

^a Radiology/Nuclear Medicine Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Bowel obstruction; Crohn's disease; Diverticulitis; Gastrointestinal tumours; Transabdominal sonography

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON CARCINOMA; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIVERTICULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; ILEUS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LARGE INTESTINE TUMOR; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036636669     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-001-1201-5     Document Type: Article

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