title: Multi-detector row spiral CT (MDCT) in bowel related non-traumatic abdominal emergencies.
abstract: The management of the patients with acute abdomen syndrome requires an accurate and rapid diagnostic. Spiral CT is the investigation of choice in these cases because it is rapid, cost-effective and provides a global perspective of abdominal structures. Also, helical CT offers the possibility to obtain thinner contiguous images and to perform coronal or sagittal reconstruction, as well as the possibility to make the acquisitions during the different vascular phases.
authors.affiliation: Imaging Department, Emergency Hospital Floreasca, Bucharest, Romania. dmbolog@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Nicolae
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bolog
authors.forename: Alexandru
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Popiel
authors.forename: Irinel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Oancea
authors.forename: Angelica
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mangrău
authors.forename: Mircea
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beuran
authors.forename: Eugen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nicolau
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D003287:Contrast Media; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media