Dark-lumen magnetic resonance colonography in patients with suspected sigmoid diverticulitis: A feasibility study

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2316-2322

  Ajaj, Waleed ^a   Ruehm, Stefan G ^b   Lauenstein, Thomas ^a   Goehde, Susanne ^a   Kuehle, Christiane ^a   Herborn, Christoph U ^a   Langhorst, Jost ^a   Zoepf, Thomas ^a   Gerken, Guido ^a   Goyen, Mathias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conventional colonoscopy; Diverticulitis; Diverticulosis; Magnetic resonance colonography; Sigmoid colon

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM BENZYLOXYPROPRIONIC TETRAACETIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID;

AGED; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 27744495588     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2862-2     Document Type: Article

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