Imaging Evaluation of Bowel Obstruction in Children: Updates in Imaging Techniques and Review of Imaging Findings

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-170

  Hryhorczuk, Anastasia L ^a   Lee, Edward Y ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLON VOLVULUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; CYST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALROTATION SYNDROME; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ADHESION;

ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HERNIA; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; INFANT; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINES; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857482048     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: 15584658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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