Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum

The aim of this article was to present our experience with CT-colonography evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum. Despite the high prevalence of diverticular disease in the Western world, giant colonic diverticula are rare entities, with fewer than 200 cases reported in literature.

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Autores principales: Carnevale, Aldo, Bassi, Matteo, Ferrante, Zairo, Rizzati, Roberto, Benea, Giorgio, Giganti, Melchiore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160101
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author Carnevale, Aldo
Bassi, Matteo
Ferrante, Zairo
Rizzati, Roberto
Benea, Giorgio
Giganti, Melchiore
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spelling pubmed-61592602018-10-25 Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum Carnevale, Aldo Bassi, Matteo Ferrante, Zairo Rizzati, Roberto Benea, Giorgio Giganti, Melchiore BJR Case Rep Case Report The aim of this article was to present our experience with CT-colonography evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum. Despite the high prevalence of diverticular disease in the Western world, giant colonic diverticula are rare entities, with fewer than 200 cases reported in literature. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6159260/ /pubmed/30363261 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160101 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Carnevale, Aldo
Bassi, Matteo
Ferrante, Zairo
Rizzati, Roberto
Benea, Giorgio
Giganti, Melchiore
Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum
title Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum
title_full Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum
title_fullStr Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum
title_full_unstemmed Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum
title_short Computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum
title_sort computed tomographic colonography in the evaluation of a case of giant colonic diverticulum
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160101
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