Effect of CT on false positive diagnosis of appendicitis and perforation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 972-973

  Raman, Steven S ^a   Osuagwu, Ferdnand C ^a   Kadell, Barbara ^a   Cryer, Henry ^a   Sayre, James ^a   Lu, David S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 40049106688     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc0707000     Document Type: Letter

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