Evaluation of esophageal varices by multidetector-row CT: Correlation with endoscopic 'red color sign'

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 247-254

  Mifune, Hirofumi ^a   Akaki, Shiro ^a   Ida, Kentaro ^a   Sei, Tetsuro ^a   Kanazawa, Susumu ^a   Okada, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal varices; MDCT; Red color sign

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37749042492     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: 0386300X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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