Acute pelvic pain: Evaluation and management

Comprehensive Therapy

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 173-184

  Samraj, George P N ^a   Curry Jr , R Whit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; METHOTREXATE; METRONIDAZOLE;

APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; OVARY TORSION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; TORSION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PALPATION; PELVIC PAIN;

EID: 12944314962     PISSN: 00988243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/COMP:30:3:173     Document Type: Review

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