Evaluation of scoring systems in predicting acute appendicitis in children

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1599-1604

  Macco, Sven ^a   Vrouenraets, Bart C ^a   de Castro, Steve M M ^a  

^a ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ALVARADO SCORE; APPENDICITIS INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SCORE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLITIS; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; PEDIATRIC APPENDICITIS SCORE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; AGE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPLICATION; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; INFANT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84995579290     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.06.023     Document Type: Article

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