Imaging of Acute Abdomen and Pelvis: Common Acute Pathologies

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 221-227

  Vijayaraghavan, Gopal ^a   Kurup, Divya ^b   Singh, Ajay ^b  

^a UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY TORSION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PERFORATION; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TORSION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; TORSION ABNORMALITY;

EID: 68949209103     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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