Effect of Computed Tomography of the Appendix on Treatment of Patients and Use of Hospital Resources

Open Access

15 January 1998

journal article
research article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 338 (3) , 141-146
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199801153380301

Abstract

In patients with clinically suspected appendicitis, computed tomography (CT) is diagnostically accurate. However, the effect of routine CT of the appendix on the treatment of such patients and the use of hospital resources is unknown.

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