Value of abdominal sonography in the assessment of children with abdominal pain

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 397-400

  Yip, William Chin Ling ^a,b   Ho, Ting Fei ^b   Yip, Yeng Yoong ^a   Chan, Kit Yee ^a  

^a GLENEAGLES HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Children; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOLECYSTITIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; OVARY TERATOMA; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031709983     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0096(199810)26:8<397::AID-JCU4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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