Decision making in patients with acute abdominal pain at a university and at a rural hospital: Does the value of abdominal sonography differ?

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a   Sadowski Cron, Charlotte ^a   Mäder, Paul ^b   Weissmann, Monika ^a   Dinkel, Hans Peter ^a   Negri, Marco ^b   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Rural Hospital Frutigen   (Switzerland)

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EID: 54849417969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-3-29     Document Type: Article

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