CT Angiography of the Lower Extremities

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 367-396

  Foley, W Dennis ^a   Stonely, Troy ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; CT angiography; Evaluation; Lower extremity arterial disease

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

AORTIC ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BUERGER DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYSTIC ADVENTITIAL DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERGOTISM; FALSE ANEURYSM; FIBULA GRAFT; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY ANEURYSM; ILIAC ARTERY DISSECTION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INJECTION; LEG FRACTURE; LOWER LIMB; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT CARE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POPLITEAL ARTERY ENTRAPMENT SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TIBIAL ARTERY; ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FAT EMBOLISM; LEG; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; STENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERITIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EMBOLISM, CHOLESTEROL; ERGOTISM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOWER EXTREMITY; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 77954699860     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.02.008     Document Type: Review

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