Appendicitis: Is surgery the best option?

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9777, 2011, Pages 1545-1546

  Mason, Rodney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOTE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION;

EID: 79955676864     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60623-5     Document Type: Note

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