Causes of short-term mortality after appendectomy: A population-based case-controlled study

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-107

  Andersson, Manne N ^a   Andersson, Roland E ^a  

^a RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY ISCHEMIA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASM; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SWEDEN; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959527498     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31821ad9c4     Document Type: Article

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