Inter-observer agreement for abdominal CT in unselected patients with acute abdominal pain

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1394-1407

  Randen, Adrienne ^a,b   Laméris, Wytze ^a   Nio, C Yung ^a   Spijkerboer, Anje M ^a   Meier, Mark A ^a   Tutein Nolthenius, Charlotte ^a   Smithuis, Frank ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M ^b   Boermeester, Marja A ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute abdominal pain; CT abdomen; Interobserver

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349112731     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1294-9     Document Type: Article

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