Imaging of patients with clinically suspected appendicitis in the Netherlands: Conclusions of a survey

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 978, 2009, Pages 482-485

  Cobben, Lodewijk P ^a   Bakker, O J ^b   Puylaert, J B ^a   Kingma, L M ^a   Blickman, J G ^c  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL COST; NETHERLANDS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66749115032     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/31522537     Document Type: Article

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