Reducing unnecessary ultrasound requests in emergency surgical admissions for lower abdominal pain
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منابع مشابه
Lower Abdominal Pain/Suprapubic Pain
P. Gontero et al. (eds.), Problem Based Urology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4634-6_2, © Springer-Verlag London 2013 Abstract The term “lower abdomen” refers to the portion of abdomen below the umbilicus in which three topographic regions can be identi fi ed: the hypogastrium in the middle and the left and right iliac fossa, both located lateral to the hypogastrium, in the left and right inferior pa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2014.08.197