Are we overusing ultrasound in non-traumatic acute abdominal pain?

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 941, 2004, Pages 177-179

  Raman, S ^a   Somasekar, K ^a   Winter, R K ^a   Lewis, M H ^a  

^a ROYAL GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1642316058     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2003.013805     Document Type: Article

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