@article{a53655a1842246f796f95dfa9a372761,
title = "The use of a computed tomography scan to rule out appendicitis in women of childbearing age is as accurate as clinical examination: A prospective randomized trial",
author = "Lopez, \{Peter P.\} and Cohn, \{Stephen M.\} and Popkin, \{Charles A.\} and Julie Jackowski and Michalek, \{Joel E.\} and Margaret Brown and Fahim Habib and Jeffrey Augenstein and Erik Barquist and Patricia Byers and Schulman, \{Carl I.\} and Enrique Ginzburg and Mauricio Lynn and Mark McKenney and Nicholas Namias and Shatz, \{David V\} and Danny Sleeman and Hameed, \{S. Morad\} and Whinney, \{Robb R.\} and Louis Pizano and Peter Ekeh and Suzanne LeBlang and Martin Newman",
note = "Diagnosing appendicitis continues to be a difficult task for clinicians. The use of routine CT scan has been advocated to improve the accuracy of diagnosing appendicitis. When compared with the use of clinical examination alone, CT scan was not significantly different with regard to making the diagnosis of appendicitis in women of childbearing age.",
year = "2007",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/000313480707301207",
language = "American English",
volume = "73",
journal = "The American Surgeon",
issn = "1555-9823",
publisher = "Sage",
number = "12",
}