The value of pancreatic stone protein in predicting acute appendicitis in patients presenting at the emergency department with abdominal pain

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tschuor, Christoph ^a   Raptis, Dimitri A ^a   Limani, Përparim ^a   Bächler, Thomas ^a   Oberkofler, Christian E ^a   Breitenstein, Stefan ^a   Graf, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Acute appendicitis; Pancreatic stone protein; PSP

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LITHOSTATHINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; GRANULOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDICITIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LITHOSTATHINE;

EID: 84867743037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-12-154     Document Type: Article

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