Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 43, Issue 2 , Pages 165-168 , February 2011

Referrals for bowel ultrasound in clinical practice: A survey in 12 nationwide centres in Italy

  • Giovanni Maconi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Sciences, “L. Sacco” University Hospital, Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Gastrointestinal Unit, “L. Sacco” University Hospital, Via G.B. Grassi 74, 20157 Milan, Italy. Tel.: +39 02 39042486; fax: +39 02 39042232.
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  • Fulvia Terracciano

      Affiliations

    • U.O. Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, FG, Italy
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  • Ilario de Sio

      Affiliations

    • Cattedra di Gastroenterologia Seconda, Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy
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  • Caterina Rigazio

      Affiliations

    • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Gastroenterology Division, A.O. Ordine Mauriziano, Torino, Italy
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  • Paola Roselli

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Belcolle, Viterbo, Italy
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  • Elisa Radice

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Sciences, “L. Sacco” University Hospital, Milan, Italy
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  • Luigi Castellano

      Affiliations

    • ASL NA1 Centro - Distretto Sanitario n. 33 -Gastroenterology, Naples, Italy
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  • Fabio Farci

      Affiliations

    • Studio radiologico Casciu, Cagliari, Italy
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  • Giampiero Francica

      Affiliations

    • U.O. Ecografia Diagnostica e Interventistica, Ospedale Camilliani “S. Maria della Pietà”, Casoria (NA), Italy
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  • Andrea Giannetti

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Misericordia, Grosseto, Italy
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  • Federico Marcucci

      Affiliations

    • U.O. di Gastroenterologia ed Endoscopia Digestiva, Azienda Ospedaliero,Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy
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  • Andrea Dalaiti

      Affiliations

    • Medicina Generale Bologna, Gastroenterologo Libero Professionista, Bologna, Italy
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  • Matteo Badini

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Sciences, “L. Sacco” University Hospital, Milan, Italy
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  • Mirella Fraquelli

      Affiliations

    • Gastroenterology Unit II Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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  • Sara Massironi

      Affiliations

    • Gastroenterology Unit II Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Received 29 October 2009 ,Accepted 26 May 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2010.05.017

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 43, Issue 2 , Pages 165-168 , February 2011

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