Researchers at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York have determined that the use of ultrasound as the first imaging option to detect appendicitis in children yields comparable results to ...

Oct. 14, 2002 — Even when clinical findings strongly suggest appendicitis, it is important to obtain imaging studies such as ultrasound, according to a series of consecutive cases reported in the ...

Imaging Widely Used in Presumed Pediatric Appendicitis During the transition to an ultrasound-first paradigm for imaging acute appendicitis in pediatric patients, there does not seem to be any ...

March 3, 2009 — Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging aids in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in pregnant patients and may be able to obviate the need for computed tomography (CT) and itsundesirable ...

OAK BROOK, Ill.-- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help rule out acute appendicitis in pregnancy when ultrasound findings are inconclusive, according to a study in the March issue of Radiology.

A new study published in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health reports that suspected appendicitis in children is not only among the most common pediatric conditions but often wrongly ...

Despite modern antibiotics, high-tech diagnostic machines and surgical advances, appendicitis still kills as many as 2,000 people in the United States each year. But that toll could be reduced if ...

Picture this: a painless, radiation-free scan that can look inside your body in real time. From monitoring pregnancies to detecting heart problems, ultrasound radiology quietly powers millions of ...

Case #1: A 5-year-old boy with abdominal pain was brought to the ED by his parents. The pain had been present for 12 hours, and the child had vomited once. There was no fever or diarrhea. Tenderness ...