Hemorrhagic cholecystitis simulating gallbladder carcinoma

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 993-995

  Gremmels, Jeffrey M ^a   Kruskal, Jonathan B ^a,b   Parangi, Sareh ^a   Kane, Robert A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b West Campus Clinical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

COLOR FLOW DOPPLER IMAGING; GALLBLADDERS; SONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; GALLBLADDER HEMORRHAGE; GANGRENE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; TUMOR THROMBUS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 3142742299     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.7.993     Document Type: Article

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