Computerized Tomography Enterography and Its Role in Small-Bowel Imaging

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 283-289

  Fletcher, Joel G ^a   Huprich, James ^a   Loftus Jr , Edward V ^a   Bruining, David H ^a   Fidler, Jeff L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; OCCULT BLOOD; SMALL INTESTINE;

HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39849097012     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.12.049     Document Type: Article

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