Acute pyelonephritis: Comparison of diagnosis with computed tomography and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography

BJU International

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 341-344

  Mitterberger, Michael ^a   Pinggera, Germar M ^a   Colleselli, Daniela ^a   Bartsch, Georg ^a   Strasser, Hannes ^a   Steppan, Ilona ^a   Pallwein, Leo ^b   Friedrich, Aigner ^b   Gradl, Johann ^b   Frauscher, Ferdinand ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute pyelonephritis; Cadence contrast pulse sequence; Contrast ultrasound

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYELONEPHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 37849052261     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.07280.x     Document Type: Article

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