Does diagnosis change as a result of repeat renal colic computed tomography scan in patients with a history of kidney stones?

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 291-295

  Goldstone, Adam ^a,b   Bushnell, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIVERTICULITIS; DYSURIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATURIA; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OVARY CYST; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RENAL COLIC; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77649226139     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2008.11.024     Document Type: Article

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