CT predictors for differentiating benign and clinically worrisome pneumatosis intestinalis in children beyond the neonatal period

Radiology

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 513-519

  Olson, Doug E ^a   Kim, Yong Woo ^a   Ying, Jun ^b   Donnelly, Lane F ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DILATATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; LARGE INTESTINE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEWBORN PERIOD; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINES; MALE; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950131267     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2532090168     Document Type: Article

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