Diagnosing acute appendicitis in adults: Accuracy of color Doppler sonography and MDCT compared with surgery and clinical follow-up

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1300-1306

  Gaitini, Diana ^a,b   Beck Razi, Nira ^a   Mor Yosef, David ^b   Fischer, Doron ^a   Itzhak, Ofer Ben ^a,b   Krausz, Michael M ^a,b   Engel, Ahuva ^a,b  

^a Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Appendicitis; Color Doppler sonography; Emergency radiology; MDCT

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 43649098372     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2955     Document Type: Article

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