Predicting Postoperative Complications After Pediatric Perforated Appendicitis

Journal of Investigative Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 185-194

  Frongia, Giovanni ^a   Mehrabi, A ^b   Ziebell, L ^a   Schenk, J P ^c   Gunther P ^a  

^a Visceral and Transplantation Surgery   (Germany)

^b University Hospital of Heidelberg ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

children; complications; Outocome; pediatric; perforated appendicitis; prevention; risk factors; risk score

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DRAIN; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; ADVERSE EFFECTS; APPENDICITIS; COMPLICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84958087358     PISSN: 08941939     EISSN: 15210553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08941939.2015.1114690     Document Type: Article

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