Acute Appendicitis in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1940-1946

  Chao, Pei Wen ^a   Ou, Shuo Ming ^b   Chen, Yung Tai ^b,c   Lee, Yi Jung ^b,d   Wang, Feng Ming ^e   Liu, Chia Jen ^b,d   Yang, Wu Chang ^d   Chen, Tzeng Ji ^d   Chen, Tzen Wen ^e   Li, Szu Yuan ^d  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; End stage renal disease; Epidemiology; Mortality; Renal replacement therapy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APPENDICITIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84866529954     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-012-1961-z     Document Type: Article

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