CT evaluation of appendicitis and its complications: Imaging techniques and key diagnostic findings

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 406-417

  Leite, Nuno Pinto ^a   Pereira, José M ^a   Cunha, Rui ^a   Pinto, Pedro ^a   Sirlin, Claude ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ILEITIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

APPENDICITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25644434972     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.2.01850406     Document Type: Review

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