Direct visualization of perforation sites in patients with a non-traumatic free pneumoperitoneum: Added diagnostic value of thin transverse slices and coronal and sagittal reformations for multi-detector CT

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2302-2309

  Ghekiere, Olivier ^a   Lesnik, Alvian ^a   Millet, Ingrid ^a   Hoa, Denis ^a   Guillon, Françoise ^b   Taourel, Patrice ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

1.25 mm axial slices; CT; Perforation site; Pneumoperitoneum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LARGE INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34548080373     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0585-2     Document Type: Article

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