Imaging of aortic abnormalities with contrast-enhanced ultrasound. A pictorial comparison with CT

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2991-3000

  Clevert, Dirk A ^a,c   Stickel, M ^b   Johnson, T ^a   Glaser, C ^a   Steitz, H O ^b   Kopp, R ^b   Jauch, K W ^b   Reiser, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic lesions; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; CT angiography

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA SURGERY; AORTOCAVAL FISTULA; B SCAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBUBBLE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FISTULA; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 35348999685     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0542-5     Document Type: Review

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