Identification of adhesions on CT in small-bowel obstruction

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 88-93

  Petrovic, Bojan ^a   Nikolaidis, Paul ^a   Hammond, Nancy A ^a   Grant, Thomas H ^a   Miller, Frank H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesions; Band; Bowel obstruction; Computed tomography; CT; Intestinal obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADHESIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644622436     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-005-0450-z     Document Type: Article

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