Acute appendicitis in the elderly; Pakistan Ordnance Factories hospital, Wah Cantt. experience

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 946-949

  Salahuddin, O ^a   Malik, Muzaffar Ali Nasir ^a   Sajid, Muhammad Ali ^a   Azhar, Muhammad ^a   Dilawar, Omer ^a   Salahuddin, Ayesha ^a  

^a Pakistan Ordnance Factories Hospital   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Elderly age; Gangrene; Perforation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEATH; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; NAUSEA; PELVIS ABSCESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865858570     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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