Predicting appendiceal tumors among patients with appendicitis

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 771-775

  Loftus, Tyler J ^a   Raymond, Steven L ^a   Sarosi, George A ^a,b   Croft, Chasen A ^a   Stephen Smith, R ^a   Efron, Philip A ^a   Moore, Frederick A ^a   Brakenridge, Scott C ^a   Mohr, Alicia M ^a   Jordan, Janeen R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Orange Park Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

appendectomy; Appendicitis; cancer; risk factors; tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; ANOREXIA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX CANCER; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL CARCINOID; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOCECECTOMY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA; NAUSEA; PHLEGMON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; SUPPURATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; AGE; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDICITIS; COMORBIDITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDICITIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85009754298     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001378     Document Type: Article

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