Suspected acute appendicitis in female patients. Trends in diagnosis in emergency department in a University Hospital in Western region of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1667-1673

  Althoubaity, Fatma K ^a  

^a KING ABDUL AZIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SCORING SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39049190290     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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