Making the diagnosis of acute appendicitis: Do more preoperative CT scans mean fewer negative appendectomies? A 10-year study

Radiology

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 460-468

  Coursey, Courtney A ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a   Patel, Mayur B ^a   Cochran, Courtney ^a   Dodd, Leslie G ^a   DeLong, David M ^a   Beam, Craig A ^a   Vaslef, Steven ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE; APPENDICITIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77449117650     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09082298     Document Type: Article

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