Appendectomy during childhood and adolescence and the subsequent risk of cancer in Sweden

Pediatrics

Volumn 111, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 1343-1350

  Cope, Judith U ^a   Askling, Johan ^b   Gridley, Gloria ^a   Mohr, Adam ^a   Ekbom, Anders ^b   Nyren, Olof ^b   Linet, Martha S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Cancer incidence; Cancer risk; Childhood appendectomy; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037978050     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.111.6.1343     Document Type: Article

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