Acute appendicitis - Appendectomy or the "antibiotics first" strategy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 1937-1943

  Flum, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL MESH; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84929378807     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1215006     Document Type: Article

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