Controversies in appendicitis

Surgical Infections

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 553-558

  Meeks, Derek W ^a   Kao, Lillian S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; PERFORATION; PHLEGMON; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL INFECTION; ULTRASOUND;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 60249097075     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2008.9954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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