Monitoring C-reactive protein levels during medical management of acute appendicitis to predict the need for surgery

Surgery Today

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 451-456

  Okuş, Ahmet ^a   Ay, Serden ^b   Karahan, Ömer ^b   Eryılmaz, Mehmet Ali ^b   Sevinç, Barış ^b   Aksoy, Nergis ^b  

^a MEVLANA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Konya E itim ve Ara t rma Hastanesi Biyokimya Laboratuvar   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; CRP; Non operative antibiotic treatment; Prospective study

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DICLOFENAC; METRONIDAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDICITIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925535751     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-014-1099-6     Document Type: Article

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