Revisiting Oral Barium Sulfate Contrast Agents

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 72-80

  O'Connor, Stacy D ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

colonic polyps; CT colonography; villous adenoma

Indexed keywords

AC 14; ALKALI METAL; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; ANTIFOAMING AGENT; ATTAPULGITE; BARITOP G; BARIUM SULFATE; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CITRIC ACID; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DEXTRAN SULFATE; DISPERSANT; DRUG ADDITIVE; E Z HD; EDETIC ACID; FLAVORING AGENT; GELATIN; GUM TRAGACANTH; HEPARIN; HUMECTANT; MAGNESIUM; PECTIN; POLYPHOSPHATE; POLYSORBATE 80; POTASSIUM SALT; SILOXANE; SIMETHICONE; SODIUM; SODIUM CELLULOSE ACETATE; SORBITOL; SUSPENDING AGENT; WETTING AGENT; X OPAQUE;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER RISK; COLON POLYP; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG COATING; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG LABELING; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FLOCCULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHELF LIFE; SURFACE CHARGE; VISCOSITY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BARIUM SULFATE; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS;

EID: 33845399047     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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