Abstract
Patients with fight lower quadrant (RLQ) pain referred for imaging studies with a clinical diagnosis of appendicitis may have other pathologic conditions mimicking appendicitis. Appropriate diagnostic imaging may establish other specific diagnoses and thereby play a significant role in determining proper medical or surgical treatment. In this pictorial essay, we present a spectrum of imaging findings in patients whose clinical features were suggestive of appendicitis, but the diagnoses of a broad spectrum of other diseases were established with the imaging studies. The differential diagnoses of diseases mimicking appendicitis are reviewed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 693-698 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1997 |
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Keywords
- Appendicitis
- Cecum, neoplasms
- Computed tomography
- Crohn disease
- Gastrointestinal tract, diseases
- Omentum, infarction
- Ultrasound
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
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Imaging findings in patients with right lower quadrant pain : Alternative diagnoses to appendicitis. / Jain, Kiran A; Quam, Jeffrey P.; Ablin, Deborah S.; Gerscovich, Eugenio O; Shelton, David K.
In: Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Vol. 21, No. 5, 1997, p. 693-698.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Shelton, David K.
PY - 1997
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N2 - Patients with fight lower quadrant (RLQ) pain referred for imaging studies with a clinical diagnosis of appendicitis may have other pathologic conditions mimicking appendicitis. Appropriate diagnostic imaging may establish other specific diagnoses and thereby play a significant role in determining proper medical or surgical treatment. In this pictorial essay, we present a spectrum of imaging findings in patients whose clinical features were suggestive of appendicitis, but the diagnoses of a broad spectrum of other diseases were established with the imaging studies. The differential diagnoses of diseases mimicking appendicitis are reviewed.
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KW - Omentum, infarction
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