Acute appendicitis in pregnancy - risk factors associated with principal outcomes: A case control study

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 192-197

  Yilmaz, Hatice Gulsen ^a   Akgun, Yilmaz ^a   Bac, Bilsel ^a   Celik, Yusuf ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Fetal loss; Perforation; Pregnancy; Tocolytics

Indexed keywords

UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS MORTALITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYMPTOM; TOCOLYSIS; TURKEY (BIRD); UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDICITIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34248163114     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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