Prevalence and clinical importance of alternative causes of symptoms using a renal colic computed tomography protocol in patients with flank or back pain and absence of pyuria

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 470-478

  Moore, Chris L ^a   Daniels, Brock ^a   Singh, Dinesh ^a   Luty, Seth ^a   Molinaro, Annette ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URETER STONE;

ADULT; BACK PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PYURIA; RENAL COLIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 84877905029     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12127     Document Type: Article

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