Primary epiploic appendagitis: CT diagnosis

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-14

  Sandrasegaran, Kumaresan ^a   Maglinte, Dean D ^a   Rajesh, Arumugam ^a,b   Akisik, Fatih M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colon; CT; Epiploic appendagitis; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OVARY DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PRIMARY EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; COLITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544358741     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-004-0369-9     Document Type: Review

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