Controversies in emergency radiology: Acute appendicitis in children - The case for CT

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 238-240

  Sivit, Carlos J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute abdomen; Acute appendicitis; Computed tomography; Graded compression sonography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; OPERATOR; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442706623     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-004-0331-x     Document Type: Article

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