A simple score for predicting mortality in patients with pneumatosis intestinalis

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 639-645

  Lee, Ho Su ^a   Cho, Young Whan ^a   Kim, Kyung Jo ^a   Lee, Jong Seok ^a   Lee, Seung Soo ^a   Yang, Suk Kyun ^a  

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

Author keywords

Mortality; Multidetector computed tomography; Pneumatosis intestinalis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PERITONEAL IRRITATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; VERY ELDERLY;

MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895111627     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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