Use of twinkling artifact in sonographic detection of intestinal pneumatosis

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-296

  Oktar, S O ^a   Yucel C ^a   Erbas G ^a   Ozdemir H ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Intestinal pneumatosis; Twinkling artifact; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFARCTION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NAUSEA; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ULTRASOUND; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33646795667     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-005-0021-5     Document Type: Article

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