Acute Abdomen. Added Diagnostic Value of Coronal Reformations With 64-Slice Multidetector Row Computed Tomography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-27

  Zangos, Stephan ^a   Steenburg, Scott D ^b   Phillips, K Dan ^b   Kerl, J Matthias ^b   Nguyen, Shaun A ^b   Herzog, Christopher ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^b   Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Costello, Phillip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute abdomen; emergency radiology; multi detection CT; resident education

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845539113     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.09.050     Document Type: Article

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