Acute appendicitis or not: Facts and suggestions to reduce valueless surgery

Journal of Acute Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 142-147

  Huang, Tai Hsun ^a   Huang, Ying C ^a,b   Tu, Chi Wen ^a  

^a CHIA YI CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Clinical score; Computed tomography; Negative appendectomy; Value of surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL RISK; TUBOOVARIAN ABSCESS; VOMITING;

EID: 84892486031     PISSN: 22115587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacme.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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