Initial treatment of biliary colic: Are NSAIDs better than opiates?

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Meyers, David ^a   Feldstein, David A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; KETOROLAC; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PETHIDINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLIC; ECHOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLIC; HUMANS; KETOROLAC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 24944571101     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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