Chronic diverticulitis: Clinical, radiographic, and pathologic findings

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 522-528

  Sheiman, Laura ^a   Levine, Marc S ^a   Levin, Alicia A ^a   Hogan, Jonathan ^a   Rubesin, Stephen E ^a   Furth, Emma E ^a   Laufer, Igor ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Barium enema; Chronic diverticulitis; Gastrointestinal imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIATRIZOATE; IOHEXOL; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; OBSTRUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARIUM SULFATE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; DIVERTICULITIS; ENEMA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49149127494     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3597     Document Type: Article

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