Imaging of simple and complicated acute cholecystitis;Imaging delle colecistiti acute semplici e complicate

Clinica Terapeutica

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 435-442

  De Vargas Macciucca, Marina ^a,b   Lanciotti, S ^a   De Cicco, M L ^a   Bertini, L ^a   Colaiacomo, M C ^a   Gualdi, G ^a  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Complicated cholecystitis; Spiral CT; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM;

CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33845394019     PISSN: 00099074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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