Imaging children with acute right lower quadrant pain

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 575-589

  Sivit, C J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; OVARY CYST; OVARY DISEASE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TORSION;

EID: 0030997481     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3955(05)70494-6     Document Type: Article

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