Comparison of the adhesion scoring systems used in animal models and assessment of interobserver reproducibility

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 356-359

  Demirturk, Fazli ^a,b   Aytan, Hakan ^a   Caliskan, Ahmet C ^a  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adhesion scoring systems; Interobserver reproducibility; Rat model

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; LEFLUNOMIDE;

ADHESION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ABDOMEN; ADHESIONS; ADNEXAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 33745633625     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00606.x     Document Type: Article

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