Changing trends in surgery for acute appendicitis

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 363-368

  Paterson, H M ^a   Qadan, M ^a   De Luca, S M ^a   Nixon, S J ^a   Paterson Brown, S ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SCOTLAND; SEPSIS;

EID: 40749130467     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5961     Document Type: Article

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