Acute Abdominal Pain

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 659-684

  Flasar, Mark H ^a,b   Cross, Raymond ^a,b   Goldberg, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Veterans Affairs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLON ISCHEMIA; COLONOSCOPY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULITIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; IRRITABLE COLON; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 33750531673     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2006.06.004     Document Type: Review

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