Does this child have appendicitis?

JAMA

Volumn 298, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 438-451

  Bundy, David G ^a   Byerley, Julie S ^b   Liles, E Allen ^b   Perrin, Eliana M ^b   Katznelson, Jessica ^b   Rice, Henry E ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REBOUND; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; URINALYSIS;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; APPENDICITIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; URINALYSIS;

EID: 34547159840     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.298.4.438     Document Type: Article

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