Role of clinical judgment and tissue harmonic imaging ultrasonography in diagnosis of paediatric acute appendicitis

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zakaria, Ossama ^a,b   Sultan, Tamer A ^c   Khalil, Tarek H ^a   Wahba, Tamer ^d  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b Sporting Students' Health Insurance Hospital   (Egypt)

^c MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis in children; Appendicitis clinical score; Tissue harmonic imaging (thi); Ultrasound scan

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055149898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-6-39     Document Type: Article

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