Aortoenteric fistula: A diagnostic dilemma

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 398-402

  Hughes, Fiona M ^a,c   Kavanagh, Dara ^b   Barry, Mary ^a   Owens, Anthony ^a   MacErlaine, Donal P ^a   Malone, Dermot E ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b St Columcille s Hospital   (Ireland)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta surgery; Aortic diseases radiography; Duodenal diseases radiography; Infection radiography; Intestinal fistula radiography; Tomography, spiral computed

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTOINTESTINAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 34447505920     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9062-7     Document Type: Article

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