Province-wide population survey of acute appendicitis in Canada. New twists to an old disease

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1383-1387

  Gagne J P ^a   Billard, M ^b   Gagnon, R ^b   Laurion, M ^c   Jacques, A ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Direction de l'Amélioration de l'Exercice   (Canada)

^c Cité de la Santé ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Epidemiology; Laparoscopy; Teaching hospitals, university; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUEBEC;

EID: 34547212801     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9227-7     Document Type: Article

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