Table 6. False-positive cases: diagnoses in cases in which more than one reader misclassified the case.
Group | Diagnosis | Number of readers that misclassified case |
Positive oral contrast | Pelvic inflammatory disease | 3 |
Perforated cecal cancer | 3 | |
Diverticulitis | 2 | |
Perforated duodenal ulcer | 2 | |
RLQ pain, not otherwise specified (1 year follow-up) | 2 | |
Neutral oral contrast | Gastroenteritis | 4 |
RLQ pain, not otherwise specified (no follow-up) | 3 | |
RLQ pain, not otherwise specified (no follow-up) | 3 | |
Gastroenteritis | 2 | |
RLQ pain, not otherwise specified (18 month follow-up) | 2 | |
RLQ pain, not otherwise specified (7 month follow-up) | 2 |
RLQ, right lower quadrant.