Combination of Alvarado score and ultrasound findings in diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children
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Modified Alvarado Score in Children with Diagnosis of Appendicitis
Background: Appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal emergency. Some predictive scoring systems are recommended to decrease the rate of negative appendectomy. Aim: To evaluate sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of modified Alvarado score in children who underwent appendectomy. Methods: Four hundred children with initial diagnosis of ap...
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Acute appendicitis (AA) is one of the most common causes of abdominal pain, accounting for about one-third of patients presenting to emergency services with acute abdomen. Surgeons perform about 280,000 appendectomies per year in the United States [1-3]. Despite the high prevalence, its diagnosis remains a challenge mainly among young, elderly and women of childbearing age, where a number of ot...
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Acute appendicitis (AA) is one of the most common causes of abdominal pain, accounting for about one-third of patients presenting to emergency services with acute abdomen. Surgeons perform about 280,000 appendectomies per year in the United States [1-3]. Despite the high prevalence, its diagnosis remains a challenge mainly among young, elderly and women of childbearing age, where a number of ot...
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the integration of ultrasound (US) findings with Alvarado score in diagnosing or excluding acute appendicitis. METHODS Data were analyzed in 122 pediatric patients with suspected appendicitis who had undergone US. The US findings were classified into four groups, and the patients were classified into three groups according to Alvarado score....
متن کاملAlvarado Score in the Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis: Correlation with the Tomographic and Intra-Operative Findings
Acute appendicitis (AA) is one of the most common causes of abdominal pain, accounting for about one-third of patients presenting to emergency services with acute abdomen. Surgeons perform about 280,000 appendectomies per year in the United States [1-3]. Despite the high prevalence, its diagnosis remains a challenge mainly among young, elderly and women of childbearing age, where a number of ot...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pediatric Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2574-5603
DOI: 10.24294/jpedd.v1i0.100