Acute appendicitis: To image or not to image?;Imagerie de l'appendicite: Échographie, scanner ou rien du tout?

Journal de Radiologie

Volumn 83, Issue 12 II, 2002, Pages 1952-1960

  Taourel, P ^a   Kessler, N ^a   Blayac, P M ^a   Lesnik, A ^a   Gallix, B ^b   Bruel, J M ^b  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; CT; Doppler; US

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; PERITONITIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TECHNIQUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036910285     PISSN: 02210363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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