Traumatic retroperitoneal injuries: Review of multidetector CT findings

Radiographics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1571-1590

  Daly, Kevin P ^a   Ho, Christopher P ^a   Persson, D Laurie ^a   Gay, Spencer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEUM; REVIEW;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149286287     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.286075141     Document Type: Article

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