Computed tomography of the abdomen in evaluation of patients with fever of unknown origin.
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 136 (2) , 407-411
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.136.2.7403516
Abstract
Applying Petersdorf''s classic criteria for fever of unknown origin 78 of 6654 CT [computer tomography] scans were reviewed to evaluate the diagnostic effectiveness of abdominal CT. Of these 78 scans 23 (29%) had positive CT findings and 8 (10%) had positive but nonspecific findings. Abdominal exploration or biopsy was carried out in 20 of these 31 patients and 10 cases with negative CT results were explored. In no case was any gross anatomic abnormality found in these negative cases.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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