Conservative approach versus urgent appendectomy in surgical management of acute appendicitis with abscess or phlegmon;Resultados del tratamiento conservador inicial y de la cirugía urgente en la apenaicitis aguda evolucionada

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 648-652

  Aranda Narvaez J M ^a   Gonzalez Sanchez A J ^a   Marin Camero N ^a   Montiel Casado, C ^a   Lopez Ruiz P ^a   Sanchez Perez B ^a   Alvarez Alcalde A ^a   Ramirez Plaza C P ^a   Santoyo Santoyo, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Appendiceal abscess; Appendiceal phlegmon; Interval appendectomy; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHLEGMON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

EID: 79251503623     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S1130-01082010001100005     Document Type: Article

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