Appendiceal involvement in crohn's disease: Gray-scale sonography and color doppler flow features

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1071-1078

  Ripollés, Tomás ^a   Martínez, María Jesus ^a   Morote, Virgilio ^a   Errando, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Appendix; Crohn's disease; Doppler studies; Sonography

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; CECUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CROHN DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; ILEUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMUCOSA; THICKNESS; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CECUM DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CECAL DISEASES; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33646914771     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1839     Document Type: Article

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