Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging: A prospective evaluation of patients with suspected appendicitis (Diamond)

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 617-623

  Heverhagen, Johannes T ^a   Pfestroff, Kathrin ^a   Heverhagen, Anna E ^a   Klose, Klaus J ^a   Kessler, Katharina ^a   Sitter, Helmut ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute appendicitis; cost analysis; prospective study; sensitivity; specificity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; COLITIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIVERTICULITIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INGUINAL HERNIA; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857083790     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22854     Document Type: Article

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