Appendicitis update

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-285

  Hennelly, Kara E ^a   Bachur, Richard ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

appendicitis; biomarkers; imaging

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 GLYCOPROTEIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RNA;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDICITIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS;

EID: 79958022691     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32834604da     Document Type: Review

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