Diagnosis of bacterial hepatic abscess by CT

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-275

  Wang, Cheng Lin ^a   Guo, Xue Jun ^a   Qiu, Shui Bo ^b   Lei, Yi ^b   Yuan, Zhi Dong ^a   Dong, Han Bin ^c   Liu, Hui An ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shenzhen No 2 People s Hospital   (China)

^c Shenzhen Luohu District Hospital of Chinese Medicine   (China)

^d Buji People's Hospital of Shenzhen   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial; CT; Hepatic abscess; Imaging characteristics

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PUNCTURE; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250320877     PISSN: 14993872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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