Detecting acute mesenteric ischemia in CT of the acute abdomen is dependent on clinical suspicion: Review of 95 consecutive patients

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2444-2453

  Lehtimäki, Tiina T ^a   Kärkkäinen, Jussi M ^a   Saari, Petri ^a   Manninen, Hannu ^a,b   Paajanen, Hannu ^a,b   Vanninen, Ritva ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute abdominal pain; Acute mesenteric ischemia; Bowel ischemia; CT; Emergency radiologya; Superior mesenteric artery occlusion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; HEPARIN;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CELIAC ARTERY STENOSIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; INTESTINE RESECTION; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON OBSTRUCTIVE MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENIC VEIN; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; VERY ELDERLY; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTESTINE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84951570501     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2015.09.006     Document Type: Article

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