Computed Tomography and Ultrasonography To Detect Appendicitis

  1. Masashi Goto, MD, MPH
  1. From Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan 606-8507.

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    According to Terasawa and colleagues' review (1), the overall sensitivity and specificity of CT are 0.94 and 0.95, respectively, and those of ultrasonography are 0.86 and 0.81, respectively. Although …

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