Suspected acute colon diverticulitis: Imaging with low-dose unenhanced multi-detector row CT

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 189-196

  Tack, Denis ^a,e   Bohy, Pascale ^a   Perlot, Ingrid ^b   De Maertelaer, Viviane ^c   Alkellani, Orfan ^a   Sourtzis, Stavroyla ^a   Gevenois, Pierre Alain ^d  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi   (Belgium)

^b Department of Gastroenterology   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e Clinique Louis Caty   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE WALL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 25144476959     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2371041432     Document Type: Article

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