The leading diagnosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2389-

  Baudendistel, Thomas E ^a   Haase, Amy K ^a   Fitzgerald, Faith ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; LABORATORY TEST; MELENA; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCULT BLOOD; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING; COLIC; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; INTESTINE POLYP; INTUSSUSCEPTION; JEJUNUM DISEASE; LENTIGO;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; COLIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; JEJUNAL DISEASES; LENTIGO; PEUTZ-JEGHERS SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 36849046299     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps062653     Document Type: Article

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