Primary and secondary disease of the peritoneum and mesentery: review of anatomy and imaging features

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 626-642

  Wasnik, Ashish P ^a   Maturen, Katherine E ^a   Kaza, Ravi K ^a   Al Hawary, Mahmoud M ^a   Francis, Isaac R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mesentery; Omentum; Peritoneum; Tumors

Indexed keywords

CARCINOID; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DESMOID TUMOR; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; GLIOMATOSIS PERITONEI; GLIOSIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; GRANULOMATOUS PERITONITIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFARCTION; LYMPHOMATOSIS; MESENTERITIS; MESENTERY; MESENTERY DISEASE; MESENTERY TUMOR; OMENTAL INFARCTION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM CANCER; PERITONEUM MESOTHELIOMA; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; PERITONEUM TUMOR; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROSING PERITONITIS; SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR; SPLEEN INJURY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; OMENTUM; PANNICULITIS; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PERITONITIS; PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI; VASCULARIZATION;

HUMANS; INFARCTION; MESENTERY; OMENTUM; PANNICULITIS, PERITONEAL; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI;

EID: 84922563707     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-014-0232-8     Document Type: Review

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