The Appendix on CT

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-199

  Whitley, S ^a,b   Sookur, P ^b   McLean, A ^b   Power, N ^b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; APPENDIX DISEASE; APPENDIX LYMPHOMA; APPENDIX PERFORATION; APPENDIX TUMOR; CECUM TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; MUCOCELE; PARASITOSIS; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57649210757     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2008.06.015     Document Type: Review

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