What Is the acceptable rate of negative appendectomy? Comment on prospective evaluation of the added value of imaging within the dutch national diagnostic appendicitis guideline-do we forget our clinical eye?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 181-182

  Papeš, Dino ^a   Sršen Medančić, Suzana ^a   Antabak, Anko ^a   Sjekavica, Ivica ^a   Luetić, Tomislav ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84926175338     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000380772     Document Type: Article

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