Factors influencing the course of acute appendicitis in adults and children

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 398, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 857-867

  Tsioplis, C ^a   Brockschmidt, C ^a   Sander, S ^a   Henne Bruns, D ^a   Kornmann, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Diagnosis; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881111334     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-013-1096-z     Document Type: Article

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