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The role of imaging in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis during the COVID- 19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study

2022-08-04

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<h4>Purpose: </h4> Acute appendicitis is one of the most common general surgical emergencies worldwide, however its diagnosis remains challenging, with a high proportion of negative appendicectomies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefit of routine use of pre-operative imaging for the evaluation of suspected appendicitis. <h4>Methods: </h4>: This retrospective cohort study included all cases of...

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Literature Corpus work: 39fd815a-d03c-594c-a7aa-0b930a6fbd94
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1914419/v1

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