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Validity of ultrasound in predicting acute appendicitis among children, keeping histopathology as gold standard: Methodological issues

• It is good to know that sensitivity is an important measure in public health aspects instead of clinical fields. Likewise, PPV and NPV are among the measures which are more appropriate for advice about the validity of a diagnostic test for clinical purposes. • It is critically important to conside...

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Autores principales: Karimi, Roya, Mounesan, Leila, Rahmani, Jamal, Sabour, Siamak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6667739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31388416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2019.05.018