Imaging Modalities for Acute Abdominal Pain

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-9

  Sucher, Joseph F ^a   Macfadyen, Bruce V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute abdominal pain; Imaging modalities

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84993815532     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060200900102     Document Type: Article

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