Defining the current negative appendectomy rate: For whom is preoperative computed tomography making an impact?

Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 276-282

  Wagner, Patrick L ^a   Eachempati, Soumitra R ^a   Soe, Kevin ^a   Pieracci, Frederic M ^a   Shou, Jian ^a   Barie, Philip S ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47549101817     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.03.040     Document Type: Article

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