Nontraumatic acute abdominal pain: Unenhanced helical CT compared with three-view acute abdominal series

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 114-122

  MacKersie, Andrew B ^a,f   Lane, Michael J ^b   Gerhardt, Robert T ^c   Claypool, Harry A ^a,c   Keenan, Sean ^d   Katz, Douglas S ^e   Tucker, Jonathan E ^a,c  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b South Texas Radiology Group   (United States)

^c BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 25144474962     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2371040066     Document Type: Article

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