Cough sign: Reliability in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 546-548

  Chaudhary, Ishtiaq Ahmed ^a   Ajmal, Rana Muhammad ^a   Mumtaz, Babar ^a   Maqsood, Rizwan ^a  

^a FAUJI FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Cough sign; Diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL WARD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0036755652     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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