Predictive factors to distinguish between patients with noncomplicated appendicitis and those with complicated appendicitis

Annals of Coloproctology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 192-197

  Kim, Tae Hyung ^a   Cho, Byung Sun ^a   Jung, Jae Hag ^a   Lee, Moon Soo ^a   Jang, Je Ho ^a   Kim, Chang Nam ^a  

^a Eulji University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CECUM; COMPLICATED APPENDICITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NONCOMPLICATED APPENDICITIS; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84947238185     PISSN: 22879714     EISSN: 22879722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3393/ac.2015.31.5.192     Document Type: Article

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