Unexpected changes in clinical diagnosis: Early abdomino-pelvic computed tomography compared with clinical evaluation

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 783-787

  Sala, Evis ^a,b   Beadsmoore, Clare ^a   Gibbons, Daniel ^a   Shaw, Ashley ^a   Gaskarth, Mathew ^a   Groot Wassink, Thomas ^a   Watson, Christopher ^a   Dixon, Adrian K ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 71449125018     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-007-9320-3     Document Type: Article

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