EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF INTRA‐ABDOMINAL ABSCESS A REVIEW OF 111 PATIENTS
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 2 (2) , 85-88
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb100805.x
Abstract
Computed tomography detected intraabdominal abscess with 97% accuracy in 111 patients who underwent 135 separate scans. A true negative ratio of 0.98, and a true positive ratio of 0.96 was obtained. ...Keywords
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