Appearance of solid organ injury with contrast-enhanced sonography in blunt abdominal trauma: Preliminary experience

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 658-666

  McGahan, John P ^a   Horton, Stephanie ^a   Gerscovich, Eugenio O ^a   Gillen, Marijo ^a   Richards, John R ^a   Cronan, Michael S ^a   Brock, John M ^a   Battistella, Felix ^a   Wisner, David H ^a   Holmes, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Contrast media; Sonography; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; MALE; ORGAN INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN INJURY; ABDOMINAL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33748461612     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.0946     Document Type: Article

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