A prospective evaluation of emergency department bedside ultrasonography for the detection of acute cholecystitis

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-122

  Summers, Shane M ^a   Scruggs, William ^a   Menchine, Michael D ^a   Lahham, Shadi ^a   Anderson, Craig ^a   Amr, Omar ^a   Lotfipour, Shahram ^a   Cusick, Seric S ^a   Fox, J Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; GALLBLADDER; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955285944     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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