Imaging of acute right lower quadrant abdominal pain: Differential diagnoses beyond appendicitis

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-73

  Heller, Matthew T ^a   Hattoum, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Differential diagnosis; Right lower quadrant

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE LOWER QUADRANT ABDOMINAL PAIN; CECUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON ISCHEMIA; COLON TUMOR; COLON VOLVULUS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; EPIDIDYMITIS; EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; HUMAN; ILEITIS; ILEUM; ILEUM DISEASE; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE INFARCTION; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; LYMPHOMA; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMENTUM; OMENTUM INFARCTION; OVARIAN VEIN; OVARIAN VEIN THROMBOSIS; OVARY CYST; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY TORSION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TYPHLITIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UROGRAPHY; UROLITHIASIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84858704126     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-011-0997-9     Document Type: Review

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