A new approach to accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1151-1156

  Tzanakis, Nikolaos E ^a   Efstathiou, Stamatis P ^a,c   Danulidis, Kecaris ^a   Rallis, Georgios E ^a   Tsioulos, Dimitrios I ^a   Chatzivasiliou, Anthimos ^b   Peros, Georgios ^a   Nikiteas, Nikolaos I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Renal Unit   (Greece)

^c Laikon Hospital ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27744507675     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7853-6     Document Type: Article

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