The significance of Meckel's diverticulum in appendicitis - A retrospective analysis of 233 cases

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 455-458

  Ueberrueck, Torsten ^a   Meyer, Lutz ^b   Koch, Andreas ^b   Hinkel, Michael ^b   Kube, Rainer ^b   Gastinger, Ingo ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Carl Thiem Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND INFECTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPENDECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 23444461744     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7615-x     Document Type: Article

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