Acute abdominal pain

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 481-503

  Flasar, Mark H ^a   Goldberg, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STOMACH SECRETION INHIBITOR; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ANALGESIA; ANAMNESIS; APPENDICITIS; BACTEROIDES; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIET; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULITIS; DUODENUM ULCER; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KLEBSIELLA; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; ULCER PERFORATION; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; ZOLLINGER ELLISON SYNDROME;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCIES; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; ISCHEMIA; PANCREATITIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PEPTIC ULCER PERFORATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 32244440648     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2005.11.005     Document Type: Review

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