Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: Detection of source and etiology with multi-detector-row CT

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1555-1565

  Scheffel, Hans ^a   Pfammatter, Thomas ^a   Wildi, Stefan ^a   Bauerfeind, Peter ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Multi detector row computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISIPAQUE 270;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248669581     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0514-9     Document Type: Article

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