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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...
Autores principales: | Thurston, Kristy, Magge, Suma, Fuller, Robert, Voytovich, Anthony, Lee, Jessica, Kozol, Robert |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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