Acute appendicitis: prospective evaluation of a diagnostic algorithm integrating ultrasound and low-dose CT to reduce the need of standard CT
Published inEuropean radiology, vol. 21, no. 12, p. 2558-2566
Collection
- Open Access - Licence nationale Springer
Publication date2011
Abstract
Keywords
- Abdominal Pain/etiology
- Acute Disease
- Adult
- Algorithms
- Appendicitis/complications/diagnosis/radiography/ultrasonography
- Body Mass Index
- Contrast Media/diagnostic use
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Practice Guidelines as Topic
- Prospective Studies
- Radiation Dosage
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Tomography
- X-Ray Computed/methods
Affiliation
- Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine
- Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de chirurgie
- Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de radiologie et informatique médicale
- Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires
- Faculté d'économie et de management / Research Center for Statistics
Citation (ISO format)
POLETTI, Pierre-Alexandre Alois et al. Acute appendicitis: prospective evaluation of a diagnostic algorithm integrating ultrasound and low-dose CT to reduce the need of standard CT. In: European radiology, 2011, vol. 21, n° 12, p. 2558–2566. doi: 10.1007/s00330-011-2212-5
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Article (Published version)
Identifiers
- PID : unige:23177
- DOI : 10.1007/s00330-011-2212-5
- PMID : 21805194
ISSN of the journal0938-7994
