Radiological features of Meckel's diverticulum and its complications

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-118

  Thurley, P D ^a   Halliday, K E ^a   Somers, J M ^a   Al Daraji, W I ^a   Ilyas, M ^a   Broderick, N J ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; ENEMA; GLUCAGON; PENTAGASTRIN; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANGIODYSPLASIA; APPENDICITIS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIVERTICULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ANGIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENEMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57649184074     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2008.07.012     Document Type: Review

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