Appendiceal colic in children: A true clinical entity?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 246-250

  Gorenstein, Arkadi ^a   Serour, Francis ^a   Katz, Rama ^a   Usviatsov, Irena ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; CECAL DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0030003862     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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