Impact of adjunctive testing on the diagnosis and clinical course of patients with acute appendicitis

The American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 660-665

  Sarfati, Mark R ^a   Hunter, Glenn C ^a   Witzke, Donald B ^a   Bebb, Gregory G ^a   Smythe, Stephen H ^a   Boyan, Scott ^a   Rappaport, William D ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BARIUM SULFATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0027759953     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(05)80675-0     Document Type: Article

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