The "creeping fat sign" - Really diagnostic for Crohn's disease?

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-4

  Golder, Werner A ^a  

^a Association d'Imagerie Médicale   (France)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Indeterminate colitis; Omental infarction; Sclerosing mesenteritis; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLITIS; COLON DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREEPING FAT SIGN; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SEGMENTAL URETERITIS; LAPAROSCOPY; MESENTERITIS; OMENTUM INFARCTION; PANNICULITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MESENTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57049178988     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-008-0585-y     Document Type: Review

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