Performance of imaging studies in patients with suspected appendicitis after stratification with adult appendicitis score

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• 作者：Henna E. Sammalkorpi ; Ari Leppäniemi ; Eila Lantto…
• 关键词：Appendicitis ; Imaging ; diagnostic ; Abdomen ; acute ; Adult ; Ultrasonography ; diagnostic ; Multidetector computed tomography
• 刊名：World Journal of Emergency Surgery
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：12
• 期：1
• 全文大小：546KB
• 刊物主题：Emergency Medicine; Traumatic Surgery;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1749-7922
• 卷排序：12

文摘

BackgroundDiagnostic scoring is used to stratify patients with suspected appendicitis into three groups: high, intermediate, and low probability of appendicitis. The stratification can be used for selective imaging to avoid the harms of radiation without compromising diagnostic accuracy.