Appendicitis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7827, 2011, Pages

  Lewis, Sian R R ^a   Mahony, Peter J ^b   Simpson, John ^c  

^a Surgery ^*

^b Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84858998776     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d5976     Document Type: Article

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