A meta-analysis comparing conservative treatment versus acute appendectomy for complicated appendicitis (abscess or phlegmon)

Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 818-829

  Simillis, Constantinos ^a   Symeonides, Panayiotis ^a   Shorthouse, Andrew J ^b   Tekkis, Paris P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHLEGMON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CELLULITIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952319968     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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