The value of diffusion-weighted imaging and apparent diffusion coefficient quantification in the diagnosis of perforated and nonperforated appendicitis

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 106-110

  Avcu, Serhat ^a   Çetin, Feray Altun ^a   Arslan, Halil ^a   Kemik, Özgür ^a   Dülger, Ahmet Cumhur ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONPERFORATED APPENDICITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874589311     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.6070-12.1     Document Type: Article

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