Selection of symptomatic patients with Crohn's disease for abdominopelvic computed tomography: Role of serum C-reactive protein

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 267-274

  Desmond, Alan N ^a,b   O'Regan, Kevin ^b   Malik, Neera ^b   McWilliams, Sebastian ^b   O'Neill, Siobhan ^b   Quigley, Eamonn M ^a,b   Shanahan, Fergus ^a,b   Maher, Michael M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Computed tomography; Crohn's disease

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIATRIZOATE; IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROHN DISEASE; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864080886     PISSN: 08465371     EISSN: 14882361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carj.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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