Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Appendicitis, Intussusception, and Meckel Diverticulum

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 505-526

  Pepper, Victoria K ^a   Stanfill, Amy B ^a   Pearl, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Intussusception; Meckel diverticulum; Pediatric; Right lower quadrant

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPHILIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN APPENDECTOMY; PEDIATRIC APPENDICITIS; PEDIATRIC EPPENDICITIS; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR NEUTROPHILIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMYS; STUMP APPENDICITIS; SURGICAL WOUND; TRANSUMBILICAL LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM;

EID: 84860994950     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.03.011     Document Type: Review

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