What is positive appendicitis? A new answer to an old question. Clinical, macroscopical and microscopical findings in 200 consecutive appendectomies

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1145-1149

  Hussain, Abdulzahra ^a   Mahmood, H ^a   Singhal, T ^a   Balakrishnan, S ^a   El Hasani, S ^a  

^a Princess Royal University Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Macroscopical appendicitis; Microscopical appendicitis; Right lower quadrant pain

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MACROSCOPIC APPENDICITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC APPENDICITIS; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSITIVE APPENDICITIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77749240266     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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