Small bowel perforation resulting from blunt abdominal trauma: Interval change of radiological characteristics

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 358-364

  Saku, Madoka ^a,b   Yoshimitsu, Kengo ^c   Murakami, Junji ^b   Nakamura, Yusuke ^b   Oguri, Syuuiti ^b   Noguchi, Tomoyuki ^b   Ayukawa, Katsuhiko ^a   Honda, Hiroshi ^c  

^a ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA HIGASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Extraluminal air; High density ascites; Small bowel perforation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33748612470     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-006-0042-1     Document Type: Article

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