Interval appendicectomy after appendiceal mass or abscess in adults: What is "best practice"?

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-4

  Corfield, Lorraine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appendix abscess; Appendix mass; Interval appendicectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX ABSCESS; APPENDIX DISEASE; APPENDIX TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SURGEON;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845757188     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3334-2     Document Type: Review

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