Acute appendicitis: Current diagnosis and treatment

Current Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 502-505

  Shelton, Tommy ^a   McKinlay, Rodrick ^a   Schwartz, Richard W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b LEXINGTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042195193     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7944(03)00131-4     Document Type: Article

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