Should conservative treatment of appendicitis be first line?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7855, 2012, Pages

  Bakker, Olaf J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EDITORIAL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84860632221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e2546     Document Type: Editorial

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