Segmental misty mesentery: Analysis of CT features and primary causes

Radiology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 86-94

  Seo, Bo Kyoung ^a   Ha, Hyun Kwon ^a   Kim, Ah Young ^a   Kim, Tae Kyung ^a   Kim, Min Jung ^a   Byun, Jae Ho ^a   Kim, Pyo Nyun ^a   Lee, Moon Gyu ^a   Yang, Suk Kyun ^a   Yu, Eun Sil ^a   Kim, Jin Ho ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abdomen, CT; Abdomen, diseases; Mesentery, CT; Mesentery, diseases

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; IOPAMIDOL; IOPAMIRO 300;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE WALL; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; MESENTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGMENTAL MISTY MESENTERY; THICKNESS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN DILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PANNICULITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037257319     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2261011547     Document Type: Article

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