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How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings
This article is a general review of the diagnostic tools that the clinician can use for the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis with emphasis on the Alvarado Score, and it is aimed principally to the medical practitioners in different parts of the world where the diagnostic facilities and technolo...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27118990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-016-0071-8 |
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| author | Alvarado, Alfredo |
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| description | This article is a general review of the diagnostic tools that the clinician can use for the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis with emphasis on the Alvarado Score, and it is aimed principally to the medical practitioners in different parts of the world where the diagnostic facilities and technological resources are limited. |
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| spelling | pubmed-48453692016-04-27 How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings Alvarado, Alfredo World J Emerg Surg Review This article is a general review of the diagnostic tools that the clinician can use for the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis with emphasis on the Alvarado Score, and it is aimed principally to the medical practitioners in different parts of the world where the diagnostic facilities and technological resources are limited. BioMed Central 2016-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4845369/ /pubmed/27118990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-016-0071-8 Text en © Alvarado. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| spellingShingle | Review Alvarado, Alfredo How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings |
| title | How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings |
| title_full | How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings |
| title_fullStr | How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings |
| title_short | How to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings |
| title_sort | how to improve the clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis in resource limited settings |
| topic | Review |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27118990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-016-0071-8 |
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