Appendicitis: Modern diagnostics;Appendizitis: Moderne Diagnostik

Chirurg

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 782-790

  Zielke, A ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Diagnostic tools; Review

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036675736     PISSN: 00094722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00104-002-0501-x     Document Type: Article

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