BOSTON (Reuters) - The chance of having an appendix removed unnecessarily has plummeted since 1996 in the United States, possibly because more doctors are using CT scans to confirm appendicitis ...

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 ...

Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce hospital cost. Our current practice at a large teaching ...

Ultrasonography and medical resonance imaging offer similar clinical outcomes as computed tomography scans for detecting pediatric appendicitis, according to a study in Pediatrics. Researchers found ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Data from two standard diagnostic tests commonly obtained in children evaluated for abdominal pain--when combined--can improve the ability of emergency department physicians and pediatric surgeons to ...

Machine learning enabled researchers to identify a genetic biomarker for predicting perforated appendicitis in children presenting with suspected appendicitis, according to a single-center prospective ...