Assessment of appropriateness of indications for CT enterography in younger patients

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-232

  Guimarães, Luís S ^a,b   Fidler, Jeff L ^a   Fletcher, Joel G ^a   Bruining, David H ^a   Huprich, James E ^a   Siddiki, Hassan ^a   Sandborn, William J ^a   Loftus Jr , Edward V ^a   Pardi, Darrell S ^a   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Hospital Sao Teotonio   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; CT enterography; MR enterography; Radiationinduced cancer risk

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROHN DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73949130763     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21025     Document Type: Article

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