Optimizing bowel preparation for multidetector row CT colonography: Effect of Citramag and Picolax

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 723-732

  Taylor, S A ^a   Halligan, S ^a   Goh, V ^a   Morley, S ^a   Atkin, W ^a   Bartram, C I ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRAMAG; CITRIC ACID; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DISODIUM HYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; LAXATIVE; MACROGOL; MAGNESIUM CARBONATE; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE; SENNA EXTRACT; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE PREPARATION; LIQUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLID; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041885143     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9260(03)00187-9     Document Type: Article

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