Diseases of the cecum: A CT pictorial review

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2003, Pages

  Gluecker, Thomas M ^a   Williamson, Eric E ^a   Fletcher, Joel G ^a   Hough, David M ^a   Huppert, Bonnie J ^a   Carlson, Stephanie K ^a   Casey, Mary B ^a   Farrell, Michael A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colon cecum; Computed tomography; Infectious; Ischemia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMEBIASIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CANDIDA; CECUM CARCINOMA; CECUM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COLON CROHN DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSENTERY; ENTAMOEBA; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE MALROTATION; INTESTINE NECROSIS; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; INTESTINE ULCER; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ADULT; AGED; CECUM; CECUM TUMOR; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PARASITOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNDROME; TORSION; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHLITIS; ULCER; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CECAL DISEASES; CECAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECUM; DIVERTICULITIS; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; SYNDROME; TORSION ABNORMALITY; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL; TYPHLITIS; ULCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 0346888714     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1777-4     Document Type: Review

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