Community hospitals are more than 4 times more likely than pediatric institutions to use radiation-exposing computed tomography (CT) scans and 80% less likely to use ultrasound for pre-appendectomy ...

Using ultrasound as the first diagnostic imaging technique to detect appendicitis in children produces comparable outcomes to computed tomography (CT) scanning with less radiation and without ...

Children suspected of having appendicitis are more likely to receive CT scans, which involve radiation, if they are evaluated at a general hospital, a new study has shown. Children suspected of having ...

Appendicitis, the most common potential surgical problem for kids seen in the emergency department, can be visualized with a high degree of accuracy using point-of-care ultrasound. Using it as ...

If your child is in the hospital with what appears to be a case of appendicitis skip the CT scan and go for an ultrasound instead. That's the recommendation from the American College of Radiology and ...

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 ...

Have you ever treated a child with abdominal pain that you suspected might be caused by appendicitis? It’s tempting to go straight to a CT scan, but such scans expose children to ionizing radiation, ...

Isabel Schimpff parted ways with her appendix in May, three days after she turned 10. On Monday she got to see ultrasound scans of the inflamed organ. She met pediatric radiologist Robert DeFlorio, ...

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 ...

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.

Computed tomography (CT) is used at a higher rate than ultrasound in children with developmental and cognitive impairments to diagnose appendicitis, even though CT scans increase radiation risk in ...