Primary epiploic appendagitis: Sonographic findings with CT correlation

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 481-495

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

^a KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFARCTION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMENTUM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY EPIPLOID APPENDAGITIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TORSION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; APPENDICITIS; COLONIC DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0036787651     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.10102     Document Type: Review

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