Patients with possible appendicitis are typically evaluated using a standard-dose contrast enhanced CT, but a low-dose unenhanced CT that delivers approximately 50 percent less radiation is just as ...
July 6, 2012 — An emergency department (ED) strategy that eliminates the routine use of oral contrast for abdominal-pelvic (AP) computed tomography (CT) for undifferentiated abdominal pain can reduce ...
A new paper in the British Journal of Surgery, published by Oxford University Press, indicates it's now possible to diagnose appendicitis using low-does CT scans, decreasing the radiation exposure, ...
April 30, 2012 — Low-dose abdominal computed tomography (CT) can match the performance of a standard-dose CT protocol in its ability to rule out appendicitis while reducing patient exposure to ...
A new paper in the British Journal of Surgery, published by Oxford University Press, indicates it's now possible to diagnose appendicitis using low-does CT scans, decreasing the radiation exposure, ...
Nov. 16 (UPI) --CT scans expose patients to radiation, even as they help doctors spot serious health problems. Now, a new study finds low-dose scans can spot appendicitis readily while reducing ...
American Journal of Roentgenology: IV contrast-enhanced 2-millisievert CT comparable to conventional-dose CT for diagnosis of right colonic diverticulitis Leesburg, VA, April 8, 2021--According to an ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - When someone has all the signs of acute appendicitis, waiting to get a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis is not a good idea, researchers report. Compared with a ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results