Spectrum of normal findings, anatomic variants and pathology of ileocecal valve: CT colonography appearances and endoscopic correlation

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 589-595

  Iafrate, Franco ^a,b   Rengo, Marco ^a   Ferrari, Riccardo ^a   Paolantonio, Pasquale ^a   Celestre, Michela ^a   Laghi, Andrea ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomographic colonography; Ileocecal valve; Video colonoscopy; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENTERITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE CANCER; LIPOMATOSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIPOMATOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 35348900745     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-007-9198-0     Document Type: Review

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