Epidemiology and outcomes of acute abdominal pain in a large urban Emergency Department: Retrospective analysis of 5,340 cases

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 19, 2016, Pages

  Cervellin, Gianfranco ^a   Mora, Riccardo ^b   Ticinesi, Andrea ^b   Meschi, Tiziana ^b   Comelli, Ivan ^a   Catena, Fausto ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Appendicitis; Emergency Department (ED); Epidemiology; Nonspecific abdominal pain; Renal colic; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URBAN AREA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 85006215431     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/atm.2016.09.10     Document Type: Article

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