Polyarteritis nodosa: MDCT as a "one-stop shop" modality for whole-body arterial evaluation

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL.2, 2008, Pages

  Tsai, Wei Lin ^a,b,c,d   Tsai, I Chen ^a,b,c   Lee, Tain ^a,b,c   Hsieh, Chia Wei ^c  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Veterans Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); CT angiography; Polyarteritis nodosa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 48449104201     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-007-9059-9     Document Type: Article

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