Point-of-care Urine Trypsinogen Testing for the Diagnosis of Pancreatitis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-34

  Jang, Timothy ^a   Uzbielo, Alison ^a   Sineff, Sanford ^a   Naunheim, Rosanne ^a   Scott, Mitchell G ^a   Lewis, Lawrence M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

pancreatitis; trypsinogen

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRYPSINOGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AMYLASES; HUMANS; LIPASE; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPSINOGEN;

EID: 33845781516     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.07.033     Document Type: Article

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