Investigating the clinical significance of twinkling artifacts in patients with urolithiasis smaller than 5 mm.

Korkmaz, MEHMET; Aras, BEKİR; Şanal, Bekir; Yücel, Mehmet; Guneyli, Serkan; Kocak, AHMET; Uruc, Fatih

doi:10.1007/s11604-014-0337-6

Investigating the clinical significance of twinkling artifacts in patients with urolithiasis smaller than 5 mm.

Korkmaz M. , Aras B. , Şanal B., Yücel M., Guneyli S., Kocak A. , ...More

Japanese journal of radiology, vol.32, pp.482-6, 2014 (Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 32
Publication Date: 2014
Doi Number: 10.1007/s11604-014-0337-6
Title of Journal : Japanese journal of radiology
Page Numbers: pp.482-6

Abstract

Our aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of twinkling artifacts (TA) in detecting calculi < 5 mm in diameter in patients with renal colic pain who had undergone urinary grayscale ultrasonography (US) and computed tomography (CT) imaging assays.