The value of contrast-enhanced helical CT scan with rectal contrast enema in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 255-258

  Naffaa, Lena N ^a   Ishak, Gisele E ^a   Haddad, Maurice C ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; CT; Imaging

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOLOGY;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS (AA); CT SCAN WITH INTRAVENOUS AND RECTAL CONTRAST (CTRC); KAPPA AND FISHER TESTS; NONOPACIFICATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ENEMA;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; IOTHALAMIC ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 20444434618     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2004.11.022     Document Type: Article

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