MR imaging evaluation of acute appendicitis in pregnancy

Radiology

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 891-899

  Pedrosa, Ivan ^a,b   Levine, Deborah ^a,b   Eyvazzadeh, Aimee D ^a   Siewert, Bettina ^a,b   Ngo, Long ^a   Rofsky, Neil M ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; FERUMOXSIL; READI CAT 2;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33344472030     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2383050146     Document Type: Article

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