Clinical value of the total white blood cell count and temperature in the evaluation of patients with suspected appendicitis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1021-1027

  Cardall, Taylor ^a   Glasser, Judd ^a   Guss, David A ^a,b  

^a Univ C   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal pain; appendicitis; temperature; WBC count

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4544248026     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.04.011     Document Type: Article

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