Current Concepts in Imaging of Appendicitis

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 411-422

  Rybkin, Alexander V ^a   Thoeni, Ruedi F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 34250710886     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2007.04.003     Document Type: Review

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