MDCT of patients with acute abdominal pain: A new perspective using coronal reformations from submillimeter isotropic voxels

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 899-906

  Paulson, Erik K ^a   Jaffe, Tracy A ^a   Thomas, John ^a   Harris, John P ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; BARIUM SULFATE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; VOLUMETRY; ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 7944224526     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.4.1830899     Document Type: Article

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