Cecal pneumatosis in patients with obstructive colon cancer: Correlation of CT findings with bowel viability

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1667-1671

  Taourel, Patrice ^a   Garibaldi, Fabrice ^a   Arrigoni, Jerome ^a   Le Guen, Virginie ^a   Lesnik, Alvian ^a   Bruel, Jean Michel ^b  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE NECROSIS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACUTE DISEASE; CECUM DISEASE; COLON TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECAL DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 16644370106     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.6.01831667     Document Type: Article

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