Ultrasound Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen

Ultrasound Clinics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 493-523

  Scoutt, Leslie M ^a   Sawyers, Steven R ^a   Bokhari, Jamal ^a   Hamper, Ulrike M ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 56849131418     PISSN: 1556858X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cult.2007.07.002     Document Type: Review

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