Does Ochsner-Sherren regimen still hold true in the management of appendicular mass?

Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-46

  Cunnigaiper, Narayanan Dhanasekharan ^a   Raj, Praveen ^a   Ganeshram, Prasanthi ^a   Venkatesan, Vishnukumar ^a   Wani, Mehmood Ahmed ^b  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Appendicectomy; Appendicular mass; Ileocecal tuberculosis; Laparoscopy; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; WOUND INFECTION;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 74549118518     PISSN: 1306696X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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