CT of jejunal diverticulitis: imaging findings, differential diagnosis, and clinical management

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-77

  Macari, M ^a   Faust, M ^b   Liang, H ^c   Pachter, H L ^c  

^a Abdominal Imaging ^*  (United States)

^b Gastroenterology   (Switzerland)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIATRIZOATE; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE SURGERY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULUM; HUMANS; JEJUNAL DISEASES; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751545365     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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