Appendicitis: A continuing challenge

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 189-192

  Pal, K M I ^a   Khan, A ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CREATININE; ELECTROLYTE; HEMOGLOBIN; UREA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BLOOD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ASCITIC FLUID; CREATININE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROLYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN HEALTH; UREA;

EID: 0032106171     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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