Accuracy of MRI compared with ultrasound imaging and selective use of CT to discriminate simple from perforated appendicitis

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Leeuwenburgh, M M N ^a   Wiezer, M J ^c   Wiarda, B M ^d   Bouma, W H ^e   Phoa, S S K S ^a   Stockmann, H B A C ^f   Jensch, S ^b   Bossuyt, P M M ^a   Boermeester, M A ^a   Stoker, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^c ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d Northwest Clinics   (Netherlands)

^e GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

^f Kennemer Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890547968     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9350     Document Type: Article

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