Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

A child with non-traumatic abdominal pain, a common symptom of appendicitis, is more likely to receive a computed tomography (CT) scan in a general emergency department (ED) than if he or she visited ...

A total of 961 patients were screened for inclusion into the study; 281 were excluded as they were not admitted to the hospital. Five hundred seven patients were excluded because no CT scan was ...