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Focused versus screening CT scans for evaluation of nontraumatic abdominal pain in the emergency department

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the utility of computed tomography (CT) scans in patients with abdominal pain in the emergency department. We compared focused scans (having a single diagnosis in mind) and screening scans (having no diagnosis or more than one diagnosis in mind) with the hypothesis that focuse...

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Autores principales: Thurston, Kristy, Magge, Suma, Fuller, Robert, Voytovich, Anthony, Lee, Jessica, Kozol, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27147834