Abdomen's forgotten organ: Sonography and CT of focal splenic lesions: PICTORIAL ESSAY

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 120-128

  Sutherland, T ^a   Temple, F ^a   Hennessy, O ^a   Lee, W K ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMANGIOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLEEN CYST; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLEEN INJURY; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; SPLEEN DISEASE;

HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951276976     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2010.02149.x     Document Type: Review

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