Letter 6: Randomized clinical trial of antibiotic therapy versus appendicectomy as primary treatment of acute appendicitis in unselected patients (Br J Surg 2009; 96: 473-481)

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 954-

  Paice, A G ^a   Ali, H ^a  

^a MAIDSTONE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 68049107372     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6764     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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