Selective use of ultrasonography for the detection of pneumoperitoneum

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 643-645

  Chen, Shyr Chyr ^a   Wang, Hsiu Po ^a   Chen, Wen Jone ^a   Lin, Fang Yue ^a   Hsu, Chieu Yao ^a   Chang, King Jen ^a   Chen, Wei Jao ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Free air; Hollow organ perforation; Pneumoperitoneum; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0036273003     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.6.643     Document Type: Article

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