Improving the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children with atypical clinical findings using the technetium-99m hexamthylpropylene amine oxime-labelled white-blood-cell abdomen scan

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 663-666

  Yan, Dah Chin ^a   Shiau, Yu Chien ^b   Wang, Jhi Joung ^c   Ho, Shung Tai ^d   Kao, Chia Hung ^e  

^a Chung Gung Children's Hospital   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHI MEI FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^e CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Children; Technetium 99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME;

EID: 0036944535     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-002-0731-6     Document Type: Article

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