Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce hospital cost. Our current practice at a large ...

“Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in ...

Researchers found that large pediatric centers achieve low rates of delayed diagnosis of appendicitis while also having the lowest rates of CT use.

One of the key areas of research has been the evaluation of imaging techniques for diagnosing acute appendicitis in pregnant patients. A systematic review and meta-analysis found that ultrasound ...

Thus, the abdominal pain of appendicitis in pregnant women can ... Obtain surgical consultation during pregnancy. Ultrasound is still used as the primary diagnostic test or the diagnosis is ...

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them ...

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department.A small proportion of them usually have appendicitis ...