Cross-sectional imaging of acute and chronic gallbladder inflammatory disease

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 188-196

  Smith, Ethan A ^a   Dillman, Jonathan R ^a   Elsayes, Khaled M ^a   Menias, Christine O ^b   Bude, Ronald O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Chronic cholecystitis; Complicated cholecystitis; Cross sectional imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CHILD; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE;

EID: 58149263150     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3803     Document Type: Review

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