Incidence of visualization of the normal appendix on different MRI sequences

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 223-226

  Nikolaidis, Paul ^a   Hammond, Nancy ^a   Marko, Jamie ^a   Miller, Frank H ^a   Papanicolaou, Nicholas ^b   Yaghmai, Vahid ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Appendicitis; Appendix; Cross sectional; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; CECUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILEUM; INCIDENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APPENDIX; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746029750     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-006-0489-5     Document Type: Article

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