Perforated appendicitis: Is early laparoscopic appendectomy appropriate?

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 731-738

  Sleem, Rami ^a   Fisher, Sabrina ^a   Gestring, Mark ^a   Cheng, Julius ^a   Sangosanya, Ayodele ^a   Stassen, Nicole ^a   Bankey, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349326292     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.053     Document Type: Article

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