State of the art trends in imaging renal of colic

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 217-225

  Reddy, Sravanthi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ALARA; CT; Imaging; MR; Radiation dose exposure; Renal colic; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FUROSEMIDE; MERTIATIDE TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD CARE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY CARE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY COLIC; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; UROLITHIASIS;

COLIC; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 45849115090     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-008-0705-6     Document Type: Review

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