Does noncomplicated acute appendicitis cause bacterial translocation?

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 555-558

  Aslan, Adnan ^a   Karaveli, Çagdas ^a   Ogunc, Dilara ^a   Elpek, Ozlem ^a   Karaguzel, Gungor ^a   Melikoglu, Mustafa ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Bacterial translocation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TISSUE CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MESENTERY; PERITONEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249050850     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-007-1899-5     Document Type: Article

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