Acute appendicitis: Added diagnostic value of coronal reformations from isotropic voxels at multi-detector row CT

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 879-885

  Paulson, Erik K ^a   Harris, John P ^a   Jaffe, Tracy A ^a   Haugan, Paul A ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; IOPAMIDOL; READI CAT 2;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; CORONAL REFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTROPIC VOXEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18844430608     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2353041231     Document Type: Article

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