Effects of delaying appendectomy for acute appendicitis for 12 to 24 hours

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 504-507

  Abou Nukta, Fadi ^a   Bakhos, Charles ^a   Arroyo, Kervin ^a   Koo, Young ^a   Martin, Jeremiah ^a   Reinhold, Randolph ^a   Ciardiello, Kenneth ^a   Sutton, John ^b   Oldham, Sheridan ^b   Kirton, Orlando ^b   Touloukian, Robert ^b   Barth, Richard ^b   Grimm, A Ronald ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646595033     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.5.504     Document Type: Article

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