Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain

CT scanning is widely used in the diagnostic workup of right lower quadrant pain. While appendicitis remains the most frequent cause, a majority of patients referred for suspected appendicitis turn out to have alternative diagnoses or a normal CT study. The purpose of our pictorial essay is to prese...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Monika, Agrawal, Anjali
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
Materias:
GI Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2766912/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.37051
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description CT scanning is widely used in the diagnostic workup of right lower quadrant pain. While appendicitis remains the most frequent cause, a majority of patients referred for suspected appendicitis turn out to have alternative diagnoses or a normal CT study. The purpose of our pictorial essay is to present an overview of the CT findings of appendicitis and its common mimics and to highlight the features that provide clues to alternative diagnoses.
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spelling pubmed-27669122009-11-20 Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain Sharma, Monika Agrawal, Anjali Indian J Radiol Imaging GI Radiology CT scanning is widely used in the diagnostic workup of right lower quadrant pain. While appendicitis remains the most frequent cause, a majority of patients referred for suspected appendicitis turn out to have alternative diagnoses or a normal CT study. The purpose of our pictorial essay is to present an overview of the CT findings of appendicitis and its common mimics and to highlight the features that provide clues to alternative diagnoses. Medknow Publications 2008-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2766912/ http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.37051 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain
title Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain
title_full Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain
title_fullStr Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain
title_full_unstemmed Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain
title_short Pictorial essay: CT scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain
title_sort pictorial essay: ct scan of appendicitis and its mimics causing right lower quadrant pain
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