Alternative diagnoses to suspected appendicitis at CT

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 733-742

  Pooler, B Dustin ^a   Lawrence, Edward M ^a,b   Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADNEXA DISEASE; ADNEXAL MASS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIVERTICULITIS; EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HERNIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UROLITHIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870023799     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12120614     Document Type: Article

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