Appendicitis? There's an app for that

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MedPage Today, December 3, 2009

There is a new iPhone application that allows radiologists to read scans from their phones. Using a $20 iPhone application called OsiriX, radiologists made correct diagnoses of appendicitis in 124 of 125 computed tomography scans, researchers reported.

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