Measurement of the distance and angle between the aorta and superior mesenteric artery: Normal values in different BMI categories

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 595-599

  Ozkurt, Huseyin ^a   Cenker, Merve Meltem ^a   Bas, Nagihan ^a   Erturk, Sukru Mehmet ^a   Basak, Muzaffer ^a  

^a SISLI ETFAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Anatomy; Computed tomography; Superior mesenteric artery; Superior mesenteric artery syndrome

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY;

ADULT; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548798626     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-007-0238-9     Document Type: Article

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