Routine use of positive oral contrast material is not required for oncology patients undergoing follow-up multidetector CT

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 246-253

  Harieaswar, Sreemathi ^a   Rajesh, Arumugam ^a   Griffin, Yvette ^a   Tyagi, Raman ^a   Morgan, Bruno ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GASTROMIRO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADULT; AGED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149356728     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2493080353     Document Type: Article

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