Visualization rate and pattern of normal appendix on multidetector computed tomography by using multiplanar reformation display

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 446-451

  Jan, Ya Ting ^a   Yang, Fei Shin ^a   Huang, Jon Kway ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Appendix; Multidetector computed tomography; Multiplanar reformation

Indexed keywords

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

APPENDIX; MORPHO-LOGICS; MULTIDETECTOR CT; MULTIPLANAR REFORMATION; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; OUTER DIAMETERS; PATIENT SURGERY; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

VISUALIZATION;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; ASCITES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLANAR REFORMATION DISPAY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION RATE;

EID: 23044514232     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rct.0000164668.03767.53     Document Type: Review

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