A plea for incidental appendectomy in pediatric patients with malignancy

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 431-435

  Steinberg, Ran ^a   Freud, Enrique ^b   Yaniv, Isaac ^b   Katz, Jacob ^b   Zer, Michael ^b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Incidental; Neutropenic enterocolitis; Pediatric oncology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY;

ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032819295     PISSN: 08880018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/088800199276985     Document Type: Article

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