The prevalence and patterns of intraluminal air in acute appendicitis at CT

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-56

  Cabarrus, Miguel ^a   Sun, Yee Li ^a   Courtier, Jesse L ^a   Stengel, Joseph W ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a   Webb, Emily M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; CT; Intraluminal air

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARAMETERS; INTRALUMINAL AIR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872599313     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-012-1076-6     Document Type: Article

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