Periaortitis: Gadolinium-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Response to Therapy in Four Patients

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-107

  Mitnick, Hal ^a,b   Jacobowitz, Glenn ^a,b   Krinsky, Glen ^a,b   Eberle, Mark ^a,b   Rosenzweig, Barry ^a,b   Willis, David ^a,b   Rockman, Caron ^a,b   Riles, Thomas ^a,b  

^a New York Univ School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTITIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERIAORTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 1542377551     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-003-0060-8     Document Type: Article

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