Pitfalls and mimickers at 64-section helical CT that cause negative appendectomy: an analysis from 1057

Philippe Soyer1, Anthony Dohan, Clarisse Eveno

  • 1Department of Abdominal Imaging, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 2 rue Ambroise Paré, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France; Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10 rue de Verdun, 75010 Paris, France; INSERM, U 965, 2 rue Ambroise Paré, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France.

Clinical Imaging
|July 13, 2013
PubMed
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