Acute Abdominal Pain in the Elderly

Abdominal pain is a common occurrence in the elderly patients and poses a difficult challenge for the emer-gency physician. Previous studies demonstrated that among the elderly patients presenting to the emergency department with abdominal pain, at least 50% were hospitalized and 30–40% eventually h...

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Main Authors: Ching-Chih Chang, Sun-Sang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taiwan Society of Geriatric Emergency and Critical Medicine (TSGECM) 2007-06-01
Series:International Journal of Gerontology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873959808700267