Value of initial radiological investigations in patients admitted to hospital with appendicitis, acute gallbladder disease or acute pancreatitis

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 754-757

  Bhangu, Aneel ^a   Richardson, Charlotte ^a   Winter, Hannah ^b   Bleetman, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957200421     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.083188     Document Type: Article

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