Appendiceal outer diameter as an indicator for differentiating appendiceal mucocele from appendicitis

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 801-805

  Lien, Wan Ching ^a   Huang, Shih Pei ^a   Chi, Chun Lin ^a   Liu, Kao Lang ^a   Lin, Ming Tsan ^a   Lai, Ting I ^a   Liu, Yueh Ping ^a   Wang, Hsiu Po ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX DISEASE; APPENDIX MUCOCELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCELE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750623910     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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