CT Enterography: Concept, Technique, and Interpretation

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-132

  Tochetto, Sandra ^a   Yaghmai, Vahid ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Crohn disease; CT enterography; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Neoplasm; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE TUMOR; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59249086499     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2008.10.007     Document Type: Review

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