Use of Alvarado's score for the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis;Utilización del score de Alvarado en el diagnóstico de apendicitis aguda

Prensa Medica Argentina

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 447-456

  Lada, Paul Eduardo ^a,b   Ocho, Sabino ^b   Rosso, Franco ^b   Ternengo, Diego ^b   Sánchez, Martín ^b   Di Benedetto, Nadia ^b   Carbonell, Juan Manuel ^b   Vaca, Abel ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Córdoba ^*  (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 27844591814     PISSN: 0032745X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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