Evaluation of early abdominopelvic computed tomography in patients with acute abdominal pain of unknown cause: Prospective randomised study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7377, 2002, Pages 1387-1389

  Ng, Chaan S ^a,d   Watson, Christopher J E ^b   Palmer, Christopher R ^c   See, Teik Choon ^a   Beharry, Nigel A ^a   Housden, Barbara A ^a   Bradley, J Andrew ^b   Dixon, Adrian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULOSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037079425     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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