Real-time, contrast-enhanced sonographic imaging in emergency radiology;L'ecografia in tempo reale, con mezzo di contrasto, in radiologia d'urgenza

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 108, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 454-469

  Catalano, Orlando ^a,b   Lobianco, Roberto ^a   Sandomenico, Fabio ^a   Mattace Raso, Mauro ^a   Siani, Alfredo ^a  

^a Ospedale S Maria delle Grazie   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Contrast media; Nontraumatic emergencies; Scrotum; Sonography; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AORTA PERIPROSTHESIS HEMORRHAGE; AORTA PROSTHESIS; APPENDICITIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLON INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY RADIOLOGY; EPIDIDYMITIS; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; GANGRENE; GANGRENOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; KIDNEY INFARCTION; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOCOLON; MESOCOLON INJURY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORCHITIS; PANCREAS INJURY; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM ABSCESS; PILOT STUDY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RADIOLOGY; REAL TIME CONTRAST ENHANCED ECHOGRAPHY; SCROTUM BLUNT INJURY; SCROTUM DISORDER; SCROTUM PAIN; SEPSIS; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLEEN INJURY; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS TORSION; VEIN INJURY;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PAIN; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PILOT PROJECTS; SCROTUM; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 13244291566     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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