Cost-effective diagnosis of ingested foreign bodies

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 785-793

  Shrime, Mark G ^a   Johnson, Paul E ^b   Stewart, Michael G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cost effectiveness analysis; Esophageal foreign bodies; Pharyngeal foreign bodies; Plain radiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; DEGLUTITION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247862224     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31803c568f     Document Type: Article

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