A prospective treatment protocol for outpatient laparoscopic appendectomy for acute appendicitis

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-105

  Cash, Casandra L ^a   Frazee, Richard C ^a   Abernathy, Stephen W ^a   Childs, Edward W ^a   Davis, Matthew L ^a   Hendricks, John C ^a   Smith, Randall W ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOMA; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TONSILLITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862995435     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.02.024     Document Type: Article

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