The value of routine histopathological examination of appendicectomy specimens

BMC Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jones, Alun E ^a   Phillips, Alexander W ^a   Jarvis, John R ^a   Sargen, Kevin ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548577484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-7-17     Document Type: Article

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