Treating appendicitis without surgery

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 313, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 2327-2328

  Livingston, Edward ^a   Vons, Corrine ^b  

^a JAMA   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL JEAN VERDIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; PELVIS ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TYPHLITIS; FEMALE; MALE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BETA-LACTAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84931056749     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.6266     Document Type: Editorial

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