Treatment of appendicitis review of the literature and results of two multiventric observational studies;Aktuelle aspekte zur appendizitisbehandlung: Literaturanalyse und ergebnisse zweier multizenterstudien

Viszeralchirurgie

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-13

  Koch, Andreas ^a,b   Marusch, F ^a,b   Uberruck T ^b   Meyer, L ^b   Gastinger, I ^a,b   Lippert, H ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CARL THIEM KLINIKUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Diagnosis; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PERITONITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037300591     PISSN: 14353067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-37292     Document Type: Article

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