AJR
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Abstract Freely available
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lucey, B. C.
Right arrow Articles by Soto, J. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Lucey, B. C.
Right arrow Articles by Soto, J. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Mesenteric Lymph Nodes: Detection and Significance on MDCT

Brian C. Lucey1, Joshua W. Stuhlfaut1 and Jorge A. Soto1

1 All authors: Department of Radiology, Division of Body Imaging, Boston Medical Center, 88 E Newton St., Atrium 2, Boston, MA 02118.



View larger version (114K):

[in a new window]
  		Fig. 1. —On MDCT image obtained in 34-year-old man who sustained blunt abdominal trauma, lymph node (arrow) is identified at mesenteric root. Soft-tissue densities (arrowheads) represent mesenteric vessels. Presence of node only becomes apparent when scrolling through axial images.

 


View larger version (108K):

[in a new window]
  		Fig. 2. —On MDCT image obtained in 28-year-old man who sustained blunt abdominal trauma, lymph node (arrow) is detected in periphery of mesentery. Multiple other small nodes were identified at different axial levels.

 


View larger version (158K):

[in a new window]
  		Fig. 3. —On MDCT image obtained in 41-year-old woman who sustained blunt abdominal trauma, lymph nodes (arrow) are detected in mesentery of right lower quadrant. Five lymph nodes are visible on this image.

 

Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?



HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2005 by the American Roentgen Ray Society.