MDCT of acute appendicitis: Value of coronal reformations

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-48

  Neville, Amy M ^a   Paulson, Erik K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute appendicits; Computed tomography; Coronal reformations; Multidetector; Negative appendectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

APPENDICITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 58149467895     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-008-9415-5     Document Type: Article

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