Emergency medicine bedside ultrasound diagnosis of intussusception in a patient with chronic abdominal pain and unrecognized Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-210

  Dean, Anthony J ^a,b   Lafferty, Keith ^a   Villanueva, Tricia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Emergency; Intussusception; Peutz Jeghers Syndrome; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

PETHIDINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0037331619     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(02)00726-6     Document Type: Article

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