Evaluation and initial management of patients with ascites

American Family Physician

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1327-1333

  Lipsky, Martin S ^a   Sternbach, Marna R ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; CEFOTAXIME; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SPIRONOLACTONE; SULTAMICILLIN; TIMENTIN;

ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CYTOLOGY; DIURETIC THERAPY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PARACENTESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SODIUM RESTRICTION;

ALGORITHMS; ASCITES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 0029788862     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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