Use of changes over time in serum inflammatory parameters in patients with equivocal appendicitis

Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 789-796

  Wu, Han Ping ^a   Huang, Chin Yi ^a   Chang, Yu Jun ^a   Chou, Chu Chung ^a   Lin, Ching Yuang ^a  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745177727     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2005.10.021     Document Type: Article

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