Classifying patients suspected of appendicitis with regard to likelihood

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 497-502

  Birkhahn, Robert H ^a   Briggs, Matthew ^a   Datillo, Paris A ^a   Van Deusen, Shawn K ^a   Gaeta, Theodore J ^a  

^a NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Clinical scoring; Diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALPATION; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33644898808     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.08.031     Document Type: Article

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