Value of laparoscopic appendectomy in the elderly patient

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 918-922

  Kirshtein, Boris ^a   Perry, Zvi Howard ^a   Mizrahi, Solly ^a   Lantsberg, Leonid ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CEFUROXIME; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LARGE INTESTINE PERFORATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; PHLEGMON; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67349246816     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9916-y     Document Type: Article

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