Acute colonic diverticulitis: CT or ultrasound?

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2557-2559

  Bruel, Jean Michel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0347531762     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-2013-6     Document Type: Editorial

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