Unexplained renal colic: What is the utility of IV contrast?

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 331-336

  Miller, Frank H ^a   Kraemer, Eric ^a   Dalal, Kshitij ^a   Keppke, Ana ^a   Huo, Eugene ^a   Hoff, Frederick L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Computed tomography; Contrast media; Kidney CT

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; KIDNEY CT; RENAL COLIC;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ABSCESS; ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADENOMYOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; AORTA ANEURYSM; APPENDICITIS; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER FILLING; BLEEDING; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLITIS; COLON CANCER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROSALPINX; INFARCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY COLIC; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY INFARCTION; KIDNEY PAPILLA NECROSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; METASTASIS; MUCOCELE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OMENTUM; OSTEOMYELITIS; OVARY DISEASE; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS; PELVIS; PNEUMOBILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENOMEGALY; TERATOMA; TORSION; TUBOOVARIAN ABSCESS; TUBULAR DYSFUNCTION; UMBILICAL HERNIA; URETER STONE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COLIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 24344497365     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2005.01.002     Document Type: Article

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