Computed Tomographic Enterography and Enteroclysis: Pearls and Pitfalls

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 279-287

  Dave Verma, Hetal ^a   Moore, Scott ^a   Singh, Ajay ^a,b   Martins, Noel ^a   Zawacki, John ^a  

^a UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; GLUCAGON; IOPAMIDOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLUMEN;

ABSCESS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ENTEROCLYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE CANCER; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE POLYP; MESENTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 52749092017     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2007.08.007     Document Type: Review

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