Small bowel wall thickening: MDCTevaluation in the emergency room

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 409-415

  Akcalar, Seray ^a   Turkbey, Baris ^a   Karcaaltincaba, Musturay ^a   Akpinar, Erhan ^a   Akhan, Okan ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CT; Emergency room; Small bowel; Wall thickening

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; REVIEW; SMALL BOWEL WALL THICKENING; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; THICKNESS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 83155180589     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-011-0968-1     Document Type: Review

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