Should antibiotic treatment replace appendectomy for acute appendicitis?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 584-585

  Søreide, Kjetil ^a  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; OFLOXACIN; TINIDAZOLE;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT DURATION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS;

EID: 35848970531     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0957     Document Type: Review

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