Erratum: Acute appendicitis: modern understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management (The Lancet (2015) 386(10000) (1278–1287) (S0140673615002755) (10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00275-5));Acute appendicitis: Modern understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10000, 2015, Pages 1278-1287

  Bhangu, Aneel ^a,b   Søreide, Kjetil ^c,d   Di Saverio, Salomone ^e   Assarsson, Jeanette Hansson ^f   Drake, Frederick Thurston ^g  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LAPAROENDOSCOPIC SINGLE SITE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIS ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TEST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; APPENDICITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84943407850     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31502-7     Document Type: Erratum

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