Antibiotics versus surgery for appendicitis

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9796, 2011, Pages 1067-

  Andersson, Roland ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; APPENDIX; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052987897     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61469-4     Document Type: Letter

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