Suspected appendicitis in children: Diagnostic importance of normal abdominopelvic CT findings with nonvisualized appendix

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 531-537

  Garcia, Kimberly ^a   Hernanz Schulman, Marta ^a   Bennett, Debbie Lee ^a   Morrow, Stephen E ^a   Yu, Chang ^b   Kan, J Herman ^a  

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SCHOOL CHILD; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

EID: 61749083988     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2502080624     Document Type: Article

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