Sonographic assessment of regional adiposity

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1545-1553

  Vlachos, Ioannis S ^a   Hatziioannou, Achilleas ^b   Perelas, Apostolus ^a   Perrea, Despoina N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall fat index; Adipose tissue; Epicardial fat; Intraabdominal thickness; Mesenteric fat; Obesity; Preperitoneal fat

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MESENTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 36448967107     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2366     Document Type: Review

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