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7786263

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-7-18
pubmed:abstractText
While the incidence of 'negative' appendectomy has long been justified as a necessary evil in the management of acute appendicitis, attempts to improve diagnostic accuracy have met with mixed results. In a prospective study of 34 selected patients who presented with acute lower abdominal pain the potential role of 99mTechnetium labelled leucocyte scanning in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has been evaluated. Patient management was not based on the result of the nuclear scan. The clinical outcome was correlated with the scan diagnosis. There was one false positive and one false negative scan result with respect to the clinical diagnosis of appendicitis yielding a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 96%. 99mTechnetium labelled leucocyte scanning may have an important role in the assessment of selected patients presenting with acute lower abdominal pain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0004-8682
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
65
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
403-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
99mTechnetium labelled leucocyte scanning in acute lower abdominal pain: can it reduce the negative appendectomy rate?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article