Clinical suspicion of acute appendicitis is the time ripe for more conservative treatment?

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-45

  Grönroos, Juha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Antibiotics, computed tomography, C reactive protein, leucocyte count

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANIMALS; APPENDICITIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78651361748     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2010.496958     Document Type: Review

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