Computed Tomography Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-43

  Lee, Seung Soo ^a   Park, Seong Ho ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Enterography; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Mesenteric infarction; Mesenteric ischemia; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PAPAVERINE;

ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFUSION; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ACUTE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MESENTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870011571     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2012.09.003     Document Type: Review

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