Appendectomy: Negative appendectomy no longer ignored

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1023-1025

  Fujita, Tetsuji ^a   Yanaga, Katuhiko ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; TIME FACTORS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 36348936190     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.11.1023     Document Type: Note

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