Chronic diverticulitis vs. colorectal cancer: Findings on CT colonography

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1101-1109

  Gryspeerdt, Stefaan ^a   Lefere, Philippe ^a  

^a Virtual Colonoscopy Teaching Centre   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chronic; Colon; Diverticulitis; Tumor; Virtual CT colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878166267     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-012-9858-6     Document Type: Review

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