The range of abdominal surgical emergencies in children older than 1 year at the komfo anokye teaching hospital, kumasi, Ghana

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 236-242

  Abantanga, F A ^a,b   Nimako, B ^b   Amoah, M ^b  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Abdominal emergencies; Peritonitis; Typhoid perforation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERITONEAL CONTAMINATION; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH PERFORATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 77249141042     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.59578     Document Type: Article

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