Abdominal Pain

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-270

  Yeh, Ernest L ^a   McNamara, Robert M ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; APPENDICITIS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DIVERTICULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MESENTERIC ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; STOMACH VOLVULUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; DIVERTICULUM; HUMANS;

EID: 34247222569     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2007.01.006     Document Type: Review

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