Clinical Radiology
Volume 62, Issue 4 , Pages 365-369 , April 2007

Is colour Doppler sonography a good method to differentiate normal and abnormal appendices in children?

  • M. Baldisserotto

      Affiliations

    • Hospital da Criança Conceição – Ministério da Saúde, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
    • Hospital São Lucas da Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
    • ,
  • A.B. Peletti

      Affiliations

    • Hospital da Criança Conceição – Ministério da Saúde, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
    • Hospital São Lucas da Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: A.B. Peletti, Hospital da Criança Conceição, Radiologia, Rua Domingos Rubbo 348 apto 301, 91040-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Tel.: +55 51 3362 5203; fax: +55 51 3334 8974.

Received 16 September 2006 ,Revised 28 October 2006 ,Accepted 9 November 2006.

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PII: S0009-9260(06)00417-X

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.11.009

Clinical Radiology
Volume 62, Issue 4 , Pages 365-369 , April 2007

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