Acute gastrointestinal vaso-occlusive ischemia in sickle cell disease: CT imaging features and clinical outcome

Abdominal Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 466-475

  Gardner, Carly S ^a   Jaffe, Tracy A ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis; Gastrointestinal; Ischemia; Sickle cell disease; Vaso occlusive

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGIST; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL VASO OCCLUSIVE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; COMPLICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962407108     PISSN: 2366004X     EISSN: 23660058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-015-0621-7     Document Type: Article

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