Laurie Barclay, MD Oct. 14, 2002
Even when clinical findings strongly suggest appendicitis, it is important to obtain imaging studies such as ultrasound, according to a series of consecutive cases reported in the October issue of Gastroenterology.
“Even in patients with a clinically high probability of having acute appendicitis, cross-sectional imaging should be performed because it can accurately depict a relatively high percentage of normal appendices and/or differential diagnoses,” write Thomas Rettenbacher and colleagues from University Hospital Innsbruck in Austria.
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