Subcuticular skin closure as a standard approach to emergency appendectomy in children: Prospective clinical trial

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-42

  Serour, Francis ^a,b,c   Efrati, Yigal ^a,c   Klin, Baruch ^a,c   Barr, Joseph ^a,c   Gorenstein, Arkadi ^b,c   Vinograd, Itzhak ^a,c  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTITRICHOMONAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030060657     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900007     Document Type: Article

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