Detection and Characterization of Perianal Inflammatory Disease: Accuracy of Transperineal Combined Gray Scale and Color Doppler Sonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-27

  Mallouhi, Ammar ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^a   Peer, Siegfried ^a   Lugger, Petra ^a   Conrad, Friedrich ^a   Bodner, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Perianal abscess; Perianal fistula; Perianal inflammatory disease; Sonography

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; MORPHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURGERY; TRANSDUCERS;

COLOR DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASES;

ULTRASONICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANUS DISEASE; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS FISTULA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PERIANAL INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TRANSPERINEAL GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 1642495696     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.1.19     Document Type: Article

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