A randomized, controlled trial of routine early abdominal computed tomography in patients presenting with non-specific acute abdominal pain

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 961-969

  Sala, E ^a   Watson, C J E ^a   Beadsmoore, C ^a   Groot Wassink, T ^a   Fanshawe, T R ^a   Smith, J C ^a   Bradley, A ^a   Palmer, C R ^a   Shaw, A ^a   Dixon, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIVERTICULITIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; IRRITABLE COLON; KIDNEY COLIC; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548240229     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.01.030     Document Type: Article

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