Radiologists' performance in the diagnosis of acute intestinal ischemia, using MDCT and specific CT findings, using a variety of CT protocols

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 385-394

  Blachar, Arye ^a,b   Barnes, Sophie ^a   Adam, Sharon Z ^a   Levy, Gad ^a   Weinstein, Iuliana ^a   Precel, Ronit ^a   Federle, Michael P ^c   Sosna, Jacob ^d,e  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Intestines; Ischemia; Performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MESENTERIC ARTERY OCCLUSION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; IOHEXOL; IOTHALAMIC ACID; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 83155180604     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-011-0965-4     Document Type: Article

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