Cost-effective imaging approach to the nonbilious vomiting infant

Pediatrics

Volumn 103, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1198-1202

  Mandell, Gerald A ^a   Wolfson, Philip J ^a   Adkins, E Stanton ^a   Caro, Pilar A ^a   Cassell, Ian ^a   Finkelstein, Mark S ^a   Grissom, Leslie E ^a   Gross, George W ^a   Harcke, H Theodore ^a   Katz, Aviva L ^a   Murphy, Steven G ^a   Noseworthy, John ^a   Schwartz, Marshall Z ^a  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Gastroesophageal reflux; Infantile emesis; Pyloric stenosis radiography; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; INFANT; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYLORIC STENOSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VOMITING;

EID: 0032996576     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.103.6.1198     Document Type: Article

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