Gallbladder torsion: Preoperative diagnosis by MDCT

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 657-659

  Chou, Chen Te ^a,b   Chen, Ran Chou ^b,c   Yang, Albert D ^a   Wu, Hwa Koon ^a  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gallbladder torsion; Multidetector CT; Volvulus

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOTTING; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER VOLVULUS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STOMACH VOLVULUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348847127     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9160-6     Document Type: Article

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