Inverted appendiceal stumps simulating large pedunculated polyps on screening CT colonography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 535-538

  Prout, Tyler M ^a   Taylor, Andrew J ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendix; Colon; Colonography; CT; Screening

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; DIATRIZOATE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX POLYP; APPENDIX STUMP; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; CECUM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COLON DILATATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; APPENDIX; COLON POLYP; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33644977743     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1791     Document Type: Article

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