Ileal Crohn disease: Mural microvascularity quantified with contrast-enhanced US correlates with disease activity

Radiology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 680-688

  De Franco, Antonio ^a   Di Veronica, Alessandra ^a   Armuzzi, Alessandro ^a   Roberto, Italia ^a   Marzo, Manuela ^a   De Pascalis, Barbara ^a   De Vitis, Italo ^a   Papa, Alfredo ^a   Bock, Enrico ^a   Danza, Francesco M ^a   Bonomo, Lorenzo ^a   Guidi, Luisa ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEITIS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857394527     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110440     Document Type: Article

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