Can the location of the CT whirl sign assist in differentiating sigmoid from caecal volvulus?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 112-117

  MacAri, M ^a   Spieler, B ^a   Babb, J ^a   Pachter, H L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CECUM VOLVULUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY WHIRL SIGN; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; VOLVULUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECAL DISEASES; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONIC DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651312479     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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