Appendiceal enlargement as a criterion for clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis: Is it reliable and valid?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-14

  Gwynn, Lucas K ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Alvarado's predictive model; Anatomic variant of a vermiform appendix; Appendiceal enlargement; Clinical data; Computed tomography; Histologic findings

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036590703     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(02)00454-7     Document Type: Article

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