Mar 2, 2011 - 1213 XZ Hilversum, The Netherlands. P. M. Bossuyt. Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and. Bioinformatics, Academic Medical ...
Eur Radiol (2011) 21:1535–1545 DOI 10.1007/s00330-011-2087-5
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A comparison of the Accuracy of Ultrasound and Computed Tomography in common diagnoses causing acute abdominal pain Adrienne van Randen & Wytze Laméris & H. Wouter van Es & Hans P. M. van Heesewijk & Bert van Ramshorst & Wim ten Hove & Willem H. Bouma & Maarten S. van Leeuwen & Esteban M. van Keulen & Patrick M. Bossuyt & Jaap Stoker & Marja A. Boermeester & on behalf of the OPTIMA study group Received: 9 September 2010 / Revised: 6 December 2010 / Accepted: 15 December 2010 / Published online: 2 March 2011 # The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract Objectives Head-to-head comparison of ultrasound and CT accuracy in common diagnoses causing acute abdominal pain. Materials and methods Consecutive patients with abdominal pain for >2 h and
