Delayed Versus Immediate Surgery in Acute Appendicitis: Do We Need to Operate during the Night?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 464-469

  Yardeni, Dani ^a,b   Hirschl, Ronald B ^a,b,c   Drongowski, Robert A ^a,b   Teitelbaum, Daniel H ^a,b   Geiger, James D ^a,b   Coran, Arnold G ^a,b   Seashore, J ^a   Pearl, R ^a   Schwartz, M ^a  

^a University of Michigan Health System ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic therapy; Appendicitis in children

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NIGHT; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STUDENT T TEST; TIME;

EID: 1542408714     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2003.11.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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