Alvarado scores and pain onset in relation to multislice CT findings in acute appendicitis

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-18

  Yildirim, Erkan ^a   Karagülle, Erdal ^a   Kirbaş, Ismail ^a   Türk, Emin ^a   Hasdoǧan, Bariş ^a   Tekşam, Mehmet ^a   Coşkun, Mehmet ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40849116493     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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