Recognizing the various presentations of appendicitis

Nurse Practitioner

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 42-55

  Pisarra, Virginia Hengeveld ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAMNESIS; APPENDICITIS; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NAUSEA; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NAUSEA; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOMITING;

EID: 0033175620     PISSN: 03611817     EISSN: 15388662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006205-199908000-00003     Document Type: Article

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