The use of a computed tomography scan to rule out appendicitis in women of childbearing age is as accurate as clinical examination: A prospective randomized trial

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1232-1236

  Lopez, Peter P ^a   Cohn, Stephen M ^a   Popkin, Charles A ^b   Jackowski, Julie ^b   Michalek, Joel E ^a   Brown, Margaret ^b   Habib, Fahim ^b   Augenstein, Jeffrey ^b   Barquist, Erik ^b   Byers, Patricia ^b   Schulman, Carl I ^b   Ginzburg, Enrique ^b   Lynn, Mauricio ^b   McKenney, Mark ^b   Namias, Nicholas ^b   Shatz, David ^b   Sleeman, Danny ^b   Hameed, S Morad ^b   Whinney, Robb R ^b   Pizano, Louis ^b   Ekeh, Peter ^b   LeBlang, Suzanne ^b   Newman, Martin ^b   more..

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALVARADO SCORE; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; APPENDECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38849183593     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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