Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of plasma markers for early diagnosis in patients suspected for acute appendicitis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 703-710

  Schellekens, Dirk H S M ^a,b   Hulsewé, Karel W E ^a   Van Acker, Bernadette A C ^a   Van Bijnen, Annemarie A ^b   De Jaegere, Tom M H ^a   Sastrowijoto, Suprapto H ^a   Buurman, Wim A ^b   Derikx, Joep P M ^a,b  

^a Zuyderland Medical Centre   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN; SERUM AMYLOID A;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880310717     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12160     Document Type: Article

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