Simple acute appendicitis versus non-perforated gangrenous appendicitis: Is there a difference in the rate of post-operative infectious complications?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 517-520

  Romano, Andrea ^a   Parikh, Punam ^a   Byers, Patricia ^a   Namias, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; FEMALE; GANGRENOUS APPENDICITIS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ACUTE DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; APPENDECTOMY; GANGRENE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84911997497     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2013.106     Document Type: Article

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