Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce hospital cost. Our current practice at a large ...

It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis ...

was a Danish surgeon remembered for describing Rovsing's sign. Rovsing was born in Flensburg, the son of first lieutenant and later captain M. Rovsing (1825–94) and Anna C. Crone (1830–82). Rovsing ...

This causes pain and is evidence in support of an inflamed appendix. The principles of the obturator sign in the diagnosis of appendicitis are similar to that of the psoas sign. The appendix is ...

The International Day of Sign Languages is an annual event observed on September 23 globally. The day is marked to raise awareness about the rights of the deaf community and other sign language users.

Rovsing AS develops, manufactures and delivers systems for functional and electrical testing of spacecrafts and their payloads. The company's products and systems are used for testing of spacecraft ...

Whether dogs can get appendicitis or not is a good question. After all, appendicitis is a serious condition that can land you in the hospital, and right after than, on the surgical table. Discover ...

Sign language is one of the oldest and most natural form of language for communication, but since most people do not know sign language and interpreters are very difficult to come by we have come up ...