Imaging strategies for right lower quadrant pain in pregnancy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-12

  Long, Svati Singla ^a   Long, Christopher ^a   Lai, Hong ^a   Macura, Katarzyna J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; CT; MRI; Pregnancy; Right lower quadrant pain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 78650812802     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4323     Document Type: Review

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