Cost-effectiveness of preoperative imaging for appendicitis after indeterminate ultrasonography in the second or third trimester of pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 821-829

  Kastenberg, Zachary J ^a   Hurley, Michael P ^a   Luan, Anna ^a   Vasu Devan, Vidya ^a   Spain, David A ^a   Owens, Douglas K ^a   Goldhaber Fiebert, Jeremy D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; APPENDICITIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84889804766     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182a4a085     Document Type: Article

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