Background The optimal diagnosis and treatment of appendicitis remains controversial. This
systematic review details the evidence and current best practices for the evaluation and …

Acute appendicitis represents the most common abdominal surgical urgency/emergency in
children. Imaging remains a central tool in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and has been …

Aim The definitive diagnosis of acute appendicitis (AA) requires histopathological
examination. Various clinical diagnostic scoring systems attempt to reduce negative …

This paper is part of a clinical practice guideline update on the risk assessment, diagnostic
imaging, and microbiological evaluation of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults …

Background There is no established consensus about the relative accuracies of US, CT and
MRI in childhood appendicitis. Objective To compare, through meta-analysis, the accuracies …

Background Pediatric abdominal pain visits to emergency departments (ED) are common.
The objectives of this study are to assess variation in imaging (ultrasound±computed …

Objective To assess the diagnostic performance of CT for pediatric patients with suspected
appendicitis in various clinical settings and the proportion of acute appendicitis on final …

Introduction Acute abdominal pain accounts for about 8% of all children attending the
emergency department (ED)(Balachandran et al., 2013). In spite of being a common …

Resumen GASQUE, Rodrigo A; MORENO, Walter A y VIGILANTE, Gabriel E. Correlación
diagnóstica de la escala RIPASA en pacientes intervenidos quirúrgicamente por apendicitis …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to determine the accuracy and radiation dose
reduction of limited-range CT prescribed from the top of L2 to the top of the pubic symphysis …