Diagnostic performance of diffusion-weighted MR imaging in detecting acute appendicitis in children: Comparison with conventional MRI and surgical findings

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1518-1524

  Bayraktutan, Ümmugulsum ^a   Oral, Akgün ^a   Kantarci, Mecit ^a   Demir, Muhammet ^b   Ogul, Hayri ^a   Yalcin, Ahmet ^a   Kaya, Idris ^a   Salman, Ahmet Bedii ^a   Yiǧiter, Murat ^a   Okur, Adnan ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Erzurum Region Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

acute appendicitis; diffusion weighted imaging; MRI

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84900031025     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24316     Document Type: Article

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