Sonographic Evaluation of the Child with Lower Abdominal or Pelvic Pain

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 911-923

  Strouse, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CYST; CYST RUPTURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATOCOLPOS; HUMAN; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OVARY ABSCESS; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY TORSION; OVARY TUMOR; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TORSION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PELVIC PAIN;

EID: 33751538860     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2006.10.019     Document Type: Review

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