Quantitative measures of comb sign in Crohn's disease: Correlation with disease activity and laboratory indications

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 350-358

  Wu, Ying Wei ^a,b   Tao, Xiao Feng ^b   Tang, Yong Hua ^a   Hao, Nan Xin ^b   Miao, Fei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Comb sign; Crohn's disease; CT enterography; Quantitative

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMB SIGN SCORE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863722074     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-011-9808-8     Document Type: Article

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