Blunt bowel and mesenteric injury: MDCT diagnosis

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-61

  Yu, Jinxing ^a   Fulcher, Ann S ^a   Turner, Mary A ^a   Cockrell, Charles ^a   Halvorsen, Robert A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel and mesenteric injury; CT features; Free fluid; Multidetector computed tomography; Pitfalls

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHY; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERITONEAL FLUID LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951674646     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-009-9593-9     Document Type: Article

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