Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY However, misdiagnosing a patient with appendicitis will lead to needless surgery, and increases hospital costs ...
A new paper in the British Journal of Surgery, published by Oxford University Press, indicates it's now possible to diagnose appendicitis using low-does CT scans, decreasing the radiation exposure, ...
A Dutch team has published a protocol for a cluster randomised trial testing whether a seven-item prediction rule combined ...
Imaging Widely Used in Presumed Pediatric Appendicitis Most children with presumed appendicitis undergo preoperative computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound imaging before surgery, with significant ...
A Turkish cohort study of 675 children undergoing appendectomy found that ultrasound missed about one in five confirmed ...
An increased focus on reducing imaging-caused radiation exposure has turned attention to ultrasonography as an alternative to CT and radiography. Recently the American College of Radiology issued ...
Although individual signs and symptoms are of limited value in the diagnosis of appendicitis, the Alvarado (also known as the MANTRELS [Migration of pain to the right lower quadrant, Anorexia, ...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging gives physicians a safe and accurate tool for the diagnosis of appendicitis in pregnant patients without the increased risks of radiation to the patient and fetus, according ...
Have you ever treated a child with abdominal pain that you suspected might be caused by appendicitis? It’s tempting to go straight to a CT scan, but such scans expose children to ionizing radiation, ...
Background: Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly used to evaluate suspected appendicitis in adults because of its accuracy. Because it involves greater radiation exposure than traditional ...
This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) gives ...
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