Aorto-enteric fistula: CT findings

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-397

  Mylona, Sophia ^a   Ntai, Sparti ^a   Pomoni, Maria ^a   Kokkinaki, Anna ^a   Lepida, Niki ^a   Thanos, Loukas ^b  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortoenteric fistula; Computed tomography; CT findings; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAMNESIS; AORTOINTESTINAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUODENUM; FATIGUE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR SURGERY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 34447499921     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9139-3     Document Type: Article

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