Routine versus Selective Abdominal Computed Tomography Scan in the Evaluation of Right Lower Quadrant Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-122

  Lee, Christopher C ^a   Golub, Robert ^a   Singer, Adam J ^a   Cantu Jr , Roberto ^a   Levinson, Howard ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

appendectomy; appendicitis; CT scan

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846423203     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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