Acute Cholecystitis Detected by Serial Emergency Department Focused Right Upper Quadrant Ultrasound

Acute Cholecystitis Detected by Serial Emergency Department Focused Right Upper Quadrant Ultrasound

Acute cholecystitis is a common etiology of acute right upper quadrant pain in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED). The use of ED-focused right upper quadrant ultrasound (RUQ US) is becoming more widely utilized to evaluate abdominal pain thought to be hepatobiliary in nature. We de...

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Main Authors: David Bosch, Jessica N. Schmidt, John Kendall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of Medical Ultrasound
Subjects:
cholecystitis
emergency medicine
ultrasound
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929644116300078

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