Acute appendicitis;Akute appendizitis

Chirurgische Gastroenterologie Interdisziplinar

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 224-228

  Koch, A ^a   Marusch, F ^a   Wolff, S ^a   Gastinger, I ^a   Lippert, H ^a  

^a CARL THIEM KLINIKUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis: epidemiology; Diagnostics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; PERFORATION; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 14244272298     PISSN: 01779990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066554     Document Type: Review

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