Acute appendicitis: Position paper, WSES, 2013

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Agresta, Ferdinando ^a   Ansaloni, Luca ^b   Catena, Fausto ^c   Verza, Luca A ^a   Prando, Daniela ^a  

^a Department of General Surgery ULSS19 del Veneto ^*  (Italy)

^b PAPA GIOVANNI XXIII HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

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EID: 84898806150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-9-26     Document Type: Review

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