Acute appendicitis: Are we over diagnosing it?

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 766-769

  Singhal, Vik ^a,b   Jadhav, V ^a  

^a GEORGE ELIOT HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b WYE VALLEY NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Histology; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 36649019744     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588407X209266     Document Type: Article

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