Negative appendectomy: A 10-year review of a nationally representative sample

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 433-437

  Seetahal, Shiva A ^a   Bolorunduro, Oluwaseyi B ^a   Sookdeo, Trishanna C ^a   Oyetunji, Tolulope A ^a   Greene, Wendy R ^a   Frederick, Wayne ^a   Cornwell III, Edward E ^a   Chang, David C ^b   Siram, Suryanarayana M ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Negative appendectomy; Ovarian pathology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LEIOMYOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; MESENTERY DISEASE; NEGATIVE APPENDECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CYST; OVARY TUMOR; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952956248     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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