Is preoperative distinction between complicated and uncomplicated acute appendicitis feasible without imaging?

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 789-795

  Lietzén, Elina ^a,b   Mällinen, Jari ^c   Grönroos, Juha M ^a,b   Rautio, Tero ^c   Paajanen, Hannu ^d   Nordström, Pia ^e   Aarnio, Markku ^d   Rantanen, Tuomo ^f   Sand, Juhani ^e   Mecklin, Jukka Pekka ^d   Jartti, Airi ^c   Virtanen, Johanna ^a   Ohtonen, Pasi ^c   Salminen, Paulina ^a,b  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f SEINÄJOKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDICOLITH APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX DISEASE; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; COMPLICATED ACUTE APPENDICITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERFORATED ACUTE APPENDICITIS; PERIAPPENDICULAR ABSCESS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNCOMPLICATED ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BIOMARKERS; BODY TEMPERATURE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84971637787     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.04.021     Document Type: Article

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