Abdominal Pain in the Elderly

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 371-388

  Martinez, Joseph P ^a   Mattu, Amal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGOXIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; METFORMIN; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; STEROID; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; APPENDICITIS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ISCHEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; MESENTERY DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCINTISCANNING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; URINE RETENTION; VOLVULUS; VOMITING;

EID: 33645918986     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2006.01.010     Document Type: Review

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