Hyperattenuating signs at unenhanced CT indicating acute vascular disease

Radiographics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-125

  Morita, Satoru ^a   Ueno, Eiko ^a   Masukawa, Ai ^a   Suzuki, Kazufumi ^a   Machida, Haruhiko ^a   Fujimura, Mikihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77950117500     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.301095052     Document Type: Article

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