Modified Alvarado Scoring System as a diagnostic tool for Acute Appendicitis at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

BMC Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kanumba, Emmanuel S ^a   Mabula, Joseph B ^a   Rambau, Peter ^a   Chalya, Phillipo L ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951584944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-11-4     Document Type: Article

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