Pediatric Surgery
The sensitivity and specificity of two clinical pathways for suspected appendicitis among children three to eighteen years old in a tertiary hospital
To describe the clinical characteristics of patients with abdominal pain, to determine the diagnostic accuracy of both scoring systems including the sensitivity and specificity of the Alvarado Scoring System (AS) and Samuel’s Pediatric Appendicitis Score (SPAS) among patients presenting in the emergency room with acute abdominal pain. A second objective was to evaluate whether or not imaging studies (abdominal ultrasound and CT scan) increases the diagnostic accuracy of either clinical ...
The sensitivity and specificity of two clinical pathways for suspected appendicitis among children three to eighteen years old in a tertiary hospital
To describe the clinical characteristics of patients with abdominal pain, to determine the diagnostic accuracy of both scoring systems including the sensitivity and specificity of the Alvarado Scoring System (AS) and Samuel’s Pediatric Appendicitis Score (SPAS) among patients presenting in the emergency room with acute abdominal pain. A second objective was to evaluate whether or not imaging studies (abdominal ultrasound and CT scan) increases the diagnostic accuracy of either clinical ...