Patients with clinical acute appendicitis should have pre-operative full blood count and C-reactive protein assays

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-32

  Birchley, David ^a  

^a TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Audit; Inflammatory markers

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 30044441640     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588406X83041     Document Type: Article

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