Role of imaging in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-27

  Even Bendahan, G ^a,b   Lazar, I ^a,b   Erez, I ^a,b   Guttermacher, M ^a,b   Verner, M ^a,b   Konen, O ^a,b   Rathaus, V ^a,b   Freud, E ^a,b  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYDROURETER; ILEITIS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OMENTAL TORSION; OVARY CYST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPLENOMEGALY; TORSION; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0037260186     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280304200104     Document Type: Article

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