Appendicitis scores may be useful in reducing the costs of treatment for right lower quadrant pain;Apandisit skorları, saǧ alt kadran aǧrısı için tedavi maliyetlerini düşürmede faydalı olabilir

Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-19

  Kirkil, Cüneyt ^a   Karabulut, Koray ^a   Aygen, Erhan ^a   Ilhan, Yavuz Selim ^a   Yur, Mesut ^a   Binnetoǧlu, Kenan ^a   Bülbüller, Nurullah ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Antalya Training and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Alvarado scores; Cost; Lintula scores; Score

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST OF ILLNESS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS; STRESS ULCER; ECONOMICS; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY;

EID: 84875063634     PISSN: 1306696X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5505/tjtes.2013.88714     Document Type: Article

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