Improving the preoperative diagnostic accuracy of acute appendicitis. Can fecal calprotectin be helpful?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Ambe, Peter C ^a   Orth, Valerie ^a   Gödde, Daniel ^a   Zirngibl, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; FECES; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; ROC CURVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85007478586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168769     Document Type: Article

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