Evaluation of the Alvarado score in acute abdominal pain;Akut kari{dotless}n aǧri{dotless}si{dotless}nda Alvarado skorunun deǧerlendirmesi

Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 86-90

  Kariman, Hamid ^a   Shojaee, Majid ^a   Sabzghabaei, Anita ^a   Khatamian, Rosita ^b   Derakhshanfar, Hojjat ^a   Hatamabadi, Hamidreza ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Alvarado score; EppendicitIs

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALVARADO SCORE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AGED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895895183     PISSN: 1306696X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5505/tjtes.2014.69639     Document Type: Article

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