Left lower-quadrant pain: Guidelines from the american college of radiology appropriateness criteria

American Family Physician

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 766-770

  Hammond, Nancy A ^a   Nikolaidis, Paul ^a   Miller, Frank H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT LOWER QUADRANT PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDECTOMY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SIGMOID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON, SIGMOID; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149478485     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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