When Should We Order a CT Scan and When Should We Rely on the Results to Diagnose an Acute Appendicitis?

Current Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 464-468

  Ceydeli, Adil ^a,b   Lavotshkin, Simon ^b   Yu, Jack ^a   Wise, Leslie ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

acute appendicitis; appendectomy; CAT scan; computerized tomography; CT scan; negative appendectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750480900     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cursur.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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