Adult small bowel obstruction

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 527-544

  Taylor, Mark R ^a   Lalani, Nadim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE SOUND; MEDICAL HISTORY; META ANALYSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY STUDY 2; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ULTRASOUND; X RAY;

EID: 84879032174     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12150     Document Type: Article

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