Appendicitis: Do clinical scores matter?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 373-375

  Kharbanda, Anupam B ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ALVARADO SCORE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PEDIATRIC APPENDICITIS SCORE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS;

APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84908085926     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.05.002     Document Type: Editorial

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