The preoperative serum C-reactive protein level is a useful predictor of surgical site infections in patients undergoing appendectomy

Surgery Today

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1404-1410

  Shimizu, Takayuki ^a   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^a   Kubota, Keiichi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; C reactive protein; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; OPERATION DURATION; PERFORATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WOUND CARE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BLOOD; CHILD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; BIOMARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATIVE TIME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945448655     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-014-1086-y     Document Type: Article

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