Normal appendix in adults: Reproducibility of detection with unenhanced and contrast-enhanced MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 507-514

  Keyzer, Caroline ^a   Pargov, Stanislav ^a   Tack, Denis ^b   Créteur, Viviane ^a   Bohy, Pascale ^b   De Maertelaer, Viviane ^c   Gevenois, Pierre Alain ^b  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Appendix; CT; Gastrointestinal radiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDIX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49149127259     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3016     Document Type: Article

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