The equivocal appendix at CT: Prevalence in a control population

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-61

  Webb, Emily M ^a   Wang, Zhen J ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a   Poder, Liina ^a   Westphalen, Antonio C ^a   Yeh, Benjamin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendiceal diameter; Appendicitis; CT; Equivocal appendix; Normal appendix

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAN FRANCISCO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70449526670     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-009-0826-6     Document Type: Article

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