Use of a saline chaser in abdominal computed tomography: a systematic review

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 261-266

  Takao, Hidemasa ^a   Nojo, Takeshi ^b   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast media; Saline chaser; Saline flush; Saline pusher

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; CLINICAL IMAGES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST MATERIAL; FIXED-EFFECTS; MEDLINE DATABASE; META-ANALYSIS; PORTAL VEINS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SALINE CHASER; SALINE FLUSH; SALINE PUSHER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DENSITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67449127099     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2008.10.032     Document Type: Article

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