Acute Appendicitis - Ways to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy

European Journal of Surgery

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 435-442

  Eriksson, Staffan ^a  

^a DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROMA; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS;

EID: 0030013303     PISSN: 11024151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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