Quantitative measurement of elasticity of the appendix using shear wave elastography in patients with suspected acute appendicitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Cha, Seung Whan ^a   Kim, Ik Yong ^a   Kim, Young Wan ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; AGE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILEUM CROHN DISEASE; IRRITABLE COLON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; YOUNG MODULUS; ACUTE DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904598407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101292     Document Type: Article

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