Interpretation of computed tomogaphy does not correlate with laboratory or pathologic findings in surgically confirmed acute appendicitis

Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-152

  Weyant, Michael J ^a   Eachempati, Soumitra R ^a   Maluccio, Mary A ^a   Rivadeneira, David E ^a   Grobmyer, Stephen R ^a   Hydo, Lynn J ^a   Barie, Philip S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033624353     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2000.107422     Document Type: Article

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