64-row MDCT review of anatomic features and variations of the normal greater omentum

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 489-500

  Coulier, Bruno ^a  

^a Clinique St Luc Bouge   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Greater omentum; Imaging; Multidetector row CT; Multiplanar reconstruction; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GREATER OMENTUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; RADIOGRAPHY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OMENTUM; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350043785     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-009-0470-6     Document Type: Article

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