Evaluation of acute pelvic pain in women

American Family Physician

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-147

  Kruszka, Paul S ^a   Kruszka, Stephen J ^b  

^a U S COAST GUARD   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL HISTORY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY TEST; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VALIDITY; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77955505578     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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