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Abdominal Pain in Children (cont.)

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Author: Robert Ferry, Jr., MD

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

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Author: David J Watts, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine.

Coauthor(s): Robert M McNamara, MD, FAAEM, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Temple University; Chief, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, Temple University Hospital.

Editors: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Anthony Anker, MD, FAAEM, Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, VA.


Last Editorial Review: 6/17/2009

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