Children's Hospital Boston
A urine test for appendicitis?
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, July 12th, 2009
Appendicitis is the most common childhood surgical emergency, but the diagnosis can be challenging, especially in children, often leading to either unnecessary surgery in children without appendicitis, or a ruptured appendix and serious complications when the condition is missed. Now, emergency medicine physicians and scientists at the Proteomics Center at Children's Hospital Boston demonstrate that a protein detectable in urine might serve as a "biomarker" for appendicitis. Their report was published online June 23 by the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Despite improvement in imaging technologies, recent figures indicate that 3 to 30 percent of children have unnecessary...
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