Red flags of organic recurrent abdominal pain in children: Study on 100 subjects

Iranian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Motamed, Farzaneh ^a,b   Mohsenipour, Reihaneh ^c   Seifirad, Soroush ^d   Yusefi, Azizolah ^c   Farahmand, Fatemeh ^a   Khodadad, Ahmad ^a,b   Falahi, Gholamhosein ^a   Najafi, Mehri ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Children; Constipation; Fever; Red flag

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSURIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GROWTH DISORDER; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT ABDOMINAL PAIN; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84871450891     PISSN: 10184406     EISSN: 20082150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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