Diagnostic and interventional imaging
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Diagn Interv Imaging · Nov 2019
Comparative StudyUnenhanced CT for clinical triage of elderly patients presenting to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain.
The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy and inter-reader agreement of unenhanced computed tomography (CT) to those of contrast-enhanced CT for triage of patients older than 75years admitted to emergency department (ED) with acute abdominal pain (AAP). ⋯ Unenhanced CT alone is accurate and associated with high degrees of inter-reader agreement for clinical triage of patients older than 75years with AAP in the emergency setting.