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| Apr 1 at 2:04 | history | protected | Ian Campbell♦ | ||
| Feb 27 at 17:58 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | Also, the appendix gets smaller during midlife and after. (40 and over.) If you never had your appendix removed, there's only a 1:100,000 that you never have one. I can think of a number of reasonable explanations for the discrepancy, but the value of imaging is not at all a question in my mind. It has been indispensable for the diagnosis of millions (upon millions) of diseases. I believe I answered your question, at the very least, unless you doubt all the research using imaging. | |
| Feb 27 at 17:52 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | Imaging studies are themselves excellent, but the quality is dependent on the technician doing the imaging, and the radiologist reading the images. I know first hand of a case where a urologist missed a 5 cm mass compressing and displacing the left ureter, and IVP's are their bread and butter. You may be as skeptical as you like, but images don't make mistakes; radiologists and other people do. It's possible your appendix is retrocecal, which would falsely look like absence. ... | |
| Feb 27 at 17:35 | comment | added | Curious Layman | Maybe this is a new type of imaging, but back around 2012 when I was involved in a car crash, then later in 2014 when I was suffering from gallstones, they did CT scans of my abdomen. In both cases, they noted my appendix was "present and unremarkable" or something to that extent. When they removed my gallbladder, the surgeon confirmed to me that I did not have an appendix. My point is that I am skeptical of the accuracy of imaging on diagnosing a non-obvious problem. Then again, maybe my experiences are rare. | |
| Feb 22 at 20:07 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | Imaging of the abdomen in suspected cases of acute appendicitis is very common now, perhaps even the gold standard, but was unheard of when I first started practicing. The increasing accuracy/resolution of imaging (via ultrasound, CT or MRI) started its use about 25 years ago. | |
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| Feb 22 at 8:06 | answer | added | anongoodnurse | timeline score: 24 | |
| Feb 22 at 4:05 | answer | added | bob1 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 22 at 0:22 | history | asked | Curious Layman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |