Ultrasonographic and spiral CT evaluation of simple and complicated acute cholecystitis: Diagnostic protocol assessment based on personal experience and review of the literature;Valutazione ecografica e TC-spirale delle colecistiti acute semplici e complicate: Definizione dell'iter diagnostico attraverso una esperienza personale e la revisione della letteratura

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 167-180

  De Vargas Macciucca, M ^a,b   Lanciotti, S ^a   De Cicco, M L ^a   Coniglio, M ^a   Gualdi, G F ^a  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Complicated cholecystitis; Spiral CT; US

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; BILE DUCT DILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR; BILE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLSTONES; GASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33645549962     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-006-0018-3     Document Type: Review

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