Negative predictive value of intravenous contrast-enhanced CT of the abdomen for patients presenting to the emergency department with undifferentiated upper abdominal pain

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-26

  Ham, Hyungjoo ^a   McInnes, Matthew D F ^a   Woo, Michael ^a   Lemonde, Sylvie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Computed tomography; Emergency; Negative predictive value

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT UPPER QUADRANT PAIN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE BLOOD LEVEL; UNDIFFERENTIATED UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858699966     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-011-0996-x     Document Type: Article

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