Noninvasive evaluation of active lower gastrointestinal bleeding: Comparison between contrast-enhanced MDCT and99mTc-Labeled RBC scintigraphy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1107-1114

  Zink, Stephen I ^a,b,c   Ohki, Stephen K ^a   Stein, Barry ^a   Zambuto, Domenic A ^a   Rosenberg, Ronald J ^a   Choi, Jenny J ^d   Tubbs, Daniel S ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon; Gastrointestinal; Hemorrhage; MDCT; Nuclear medicine

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE TC 99M; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53249100691     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3642     Document Type: Article

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