The use of an emergency physician-directed bedside ultrasound examination to clarify a diagnosis in an 8-year-old boy with chronic abdominal pain

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 560-562

  Godambe, Sandip A ^a   Boulden, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Ultrasound; Ureteropelvic obstruction

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GLUCOSE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PYELOPLASTY; SCHOOL CHILD; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URINALYSIS; VITAL SIGN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 34548329669     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31812e578c     Document Type: Article

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