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Conditional CT Strategy—An Effective Tool to Reduce Negative Appendectomy Rate and the Overuse of the CT
(1) Background: Diagnosis of acute appendicitis (AA) remains challenging; either computed tomography (CT) is universally used or negative appendectomy rates of up to 30% are reported. Transabdominal ultrasound (TUS) as the first-choice imaging modality might be useful in adult patients to reduce the...
Autores principales: | Luksaite-Lukste, Raminta, Kliokyte, Ruta, Samuilis, Arturas, Jasiunas, Eugenijus, Luksta, Martynas, Strupas, Kestutis, Poskus, Tomas |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8198775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34206008 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10112456 |
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