Complicated appendicitis: Laparoscopic or conventional surgery?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 744-749

  Kirshtein, Boris ^a   Bayme, Michael ^a   Domchik, Sergey ^a   Mizrahi, Solly ^a   Lantsberg, Leonid ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947618382     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-006-0467-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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