Acute Appendicitis in the Elderly in the Twenty-First Century

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 730-735

  Segev, Lior ^a,c   Keidar, Andrei ^b,c   Schrier, Ilan ^b,c   Rayman, Shlomi ^a,c   Wasserberg, Nir ^b,c   Sadot, Eran ^b,c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Elderly; Octogenarians; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATION DURATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925462706     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: 18734626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-014-2716-9     Document Type: Article

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