Does age affect the test performance of secondary sonographic findings for pediatric appendicitis?
| Autor: | Jeffrey T. Neal, Michael C. Monuteaux, Shawn J. Rangel, Richard G. Bachur, Carol E. Barnewolt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Perforation (oil well) Appendix Sensitivity and Specificity 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences Age 0302 clinical medicine Secondary findings Ultrasound Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Child Abscess Children Retrospective Studies Ultrasonography Neuroradiology business.industry Medical record Emergency department Appendicitis medicine.disease Confidence interval medicine.anatomical_structure Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Original Article Radiology business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Radiology |
| ISSN: | 1432-1998 0301-0449 |
| Popis: | Background Secondary sonographic findings of appendicitis can aid image analysis and support diagnosis with and without visualization of an appendix. Objective We sought to determine if age affected the test performance of secondary findings for pediatric appendicitis. Materials and methods We performed a medical record review of emergency department patients younger than 19 years of age who had a sonogram for suspected appendicitis. Our primary patient outcome was appendicitis, as determined by pathology or by image-confirmed perforation/abscess. Our primary analysis was test performance of secondary sonographic findings as recorded by sonographers on the final diagnosis of appendicitis stratified by age ( |
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