Use of antibiotics alone for treatment of uncomplicated acute appendicitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 673-683

  Liu, Katherine ^a,b   Fogg, Louis ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Putnam County Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; OFLOXACIN; TINIDAZOLE;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054112499     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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