The reasons for this are varied: desire to make prompt diagnosis by imaging rather than observing ... [2] Noncontrast CT in the emergency diagnosis of appendicitis is attractive for several ...

LA has become the approach of choice by many surgeons in the treatment of both simple and complicated cases of acute appendicitis. The rate of LA between 1998 and 2008 increased from 20.6% to 70.8 ...

Things changed when my dad called the hospital head and within 9 minutes I was getting a sonogram, and an X-ray and I hadn ... although appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in ...

Canada: A new machine-learning model has demonstrated potential in predicting the severity of pediatric appendicitis before ...

STAMFORD — A lawsuit claims that Stamford Health staffers’ failure to diagnose and treat a pregnant woman’s appendicitis led ... ruled out by appropriate imaging.” The suit claims, however ...