Approach to the Acute Abdomen in Pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-402

  Kilpatrick, Charlie C ^a,b   Monga, Manju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FETUS WASTAGE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 34848850214     PISSN: 08898545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ogc.2007.06.002     Document Type: Review

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