Opacification of the genitourinary collecting system during MDCT urography with enchanced CT digital radiography: Nonsaline versus saline bolus

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 122-129

  Sudakoff, Gary S ^a,b   Dunn, Dell P ^a   Hellman, Robert S ^a   Laguna, Mario A ^a   Wilson, Charles R ^a   Prost, Robert W ^a   Eastwood, Daniel C ^a   Lim, Hyun J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast media; CT technique; Digital radiography; MDCT; Urinary tract

Indexed keywords

BISACODYL; IOHEXOL; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGRAPHY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 33644840043     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1835     Document Type: Article

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