Acute abdomen in children due to extra-abdominal causes

Pediatrics International

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 315-318

  Tsalkidis, Aggelos ^a   Gardikis, Stefanos ^a   Cassimos, Dimitrios ^a   Kambouri, Katerina ^a   Tsalkidou, Evanthia ^a   Deftereos, Savas ^a   Chatzimichael, Athanasios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Acute abdomen; Children; Extra abdominal; Pain

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIGRAINE; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; TONSILLITIS;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 44649118049     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2008.02578.x     Document Type: Article

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