Current management of appendicitis at a community center-how can we improve?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 585-589

  Piper, Hannah G ^a   Rusnak, Conrad ^a   Orrom, William ^a   Hayashi, Allen ^a   Cunningham, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Laparoscopy; Perforated appendicitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42049117098     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.12.033     Document Type: Article

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