Fat halo sign in the bowel wall of patients with Crohn's disease

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 994-997

  Amitai, M M ^a   Arazi Kleinman, T ^a   Avidan, B ^a   Apter, S ^a   Konen, E ^a   Biegon, A ^a   Hertz, M ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIATRIZOATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUM; INTESTINE WALL; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548283635     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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