Acute abdomen in the elderly;Abdomen agudo en el adulto mayor

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1505-1512

  Espinoza G, Ricardo ^a,b   Balbontín M, Paulina ^a   Feuerhake L, Sebastián ^a   Piñera M, Cecilia ^a  

^a Universidad De Los Andes Facultad de Medicina   (Venezuela)

^b NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Abdomen, acute; Aged; Surgical procedures, operative

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HERNIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 13544255649     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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