Diagnosing Ruptured Appendicitis Preoperatively in Pediatric Patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 208, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 819-825

  Williams, Regan F ^a,b   Blakely, Martin L ^a,b   Fischer, Peter E ^a,b   Streck, Christian J ^c   Dassinger, Melvin S ^d   Gupta, Himesh ^a,b   Renaud, Elizabeth J ^a,b   Eubanks, James W ^a,b   Huang, Eunice Y ^a,b   Hixson, S Douglas ^a,b   Langham, Max R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b LE BONHEUR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 64949096700     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.01.029     Document Type: Article

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