Improving the false-negative rate of CT in acute appendicitis-Reassessment of CT images by body imaging radiologists: A blinded prospective study

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-70

  Poortman, Pieter ^a   Lohle, Paul N M ^a   Schoemaker, Cees M ^a   Cuesta, Miguel A ^b   Oostvogel, Henk J M ^a   de Lange de Klerk, Elly S M ^b   Hamming, Jaap F ^c  

^a Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; CT; Diagnostic accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; NEGATIVE RATES; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAFF MEMBERS;

HOSPITALS; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950035361     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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