Efficacy of IV Buscopan as a muscle relaxant in CT colonography

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2264-2270

  Bruzzi, John F ^a   Moss, Alan C ^a   Brennan, Darren D ^a   MacMathuna, Padraic ^a   Fenlon, Helen M ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; CT colonography; Diverticular disease; Muscle relaxants; Spasmolytics; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DILATATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUTYLSCOPOLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0141506956     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-2012-7     Document Type: Article

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