Impact of the alvarado score on the diagnosis of acute appendicitis: Comparing clinical judgment, alvarado score, and a new modified score in suspected appendicitis: A prospective, randomized clinical trial

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2398-2405

  Mán, Eszter ^a   Simonka, Zsolt ^a   Varga, Ákos ^a   Rárosi, Ferenc ^b,c   Lázár, György ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Appendix; Statistical; Technical; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALVARADO SCORE; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUDEN INDEX; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DECISION MAKING; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN; PALPATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN; PALPATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906938019     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-3488-8     Document Type: Article

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