CT is useful for identifying patients with complicated appendicitis

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 195-198

  Tsukada, K ^a,b   Miyazaki, T ^a   Katoh, H ^a   Masuda, N ^a   Ojima, H ^a   Fukuchi, M ^a   Manda, R ^a   Fukai, Y ^a   Nakajima, M ^a   Ishizaki, M ^b   Motegi, M ^b   Ohsawa, H ^b   Mogi, A ^b   Okamura, A ^b   Tsunoda, Y ^b   Sohda, M ^a   Ohno, T ^b   Moteki, T ^b   Sekine, T ^b   Kuwano, H ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fujioka General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Complicated appendicitis; CT; Enlarged appendix; Fat stranding; Free fluid

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERITONITIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; APPENDIX; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442448113     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2003.11.026     Document Type: Article

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