Acute appendicitis - Changes in epidemiology, diagnosis and therapy;Akute Appendizitis - Wandel in Epidemiologie, Diagnostik und Therapie

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie - Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine, Viszeral- und Gefasschirurgie

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-24

  Sahm, M ^a   Pross, M ^a   Lippert, H ^b  

^a German Red Cross Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute appendicitis; appendectomy; diagnosis; epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951952900     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: 14389592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1247477     Document Type: Article

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