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19-03-2024 | Appendicitis | Letter to the Editor

Diagnostic performance of spectral Doppler in acute appendicitis with an equivocal Alvarado score

Authors: Reham Abd El-Aleem, Abdelrahman A. Abd Allah, Mahmoud Refaat Shehata, Gehan S. Seifeldein, Sara M. Hassanein

Published in: Emergency Radiology | Issue 2/2024

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We appreciate your feedback regarding our study [1]. First, The Alvarado score and risk classification of patients with suspected acute appendicitis (AA) into three groups based on clinical and laboratory markers suspicious of acute appendicitis were used to enroll the 100-cohort population study participants with suspected AA. Second, 84 patients with observed color flow in the appendiceal US were included in this analysis out of the 100 cohort study participants; 16 patients were excluded because we were unable to detect color flow in their appendiceal US. …

El-Aleem RA, Abd Allah AA, Shehata MR, Seifeldein GS, Hassanein SM (2024) Diagnostic performance of spectral Doppler in acute appendicitis with an equivocal Alvarado score. Emergency radiology. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-024-02205-5

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Title: Diagnostic performance of spectral Doppler in acute appendicitis with an equivocal Alvarado score
Authors: Reham Abd El-Aleem
Abdelrahman A. Abd Allah
Mahmoud Refaat Shehata
Gehan S. Seifeldein
Sara M. Hassanein
Publication date: 19-03-2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: Appendicitis
Appendicitis
Computed Tomography
Computed Tomography
Artificial Intelligence
Published in: Emergency Radiology / Issue 2/2024
Print ISSN: 1070-3004
Electronic ISSN: 1438-1435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-024-02220-6

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