The Global Incidence of Appendicitis

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 237-241

  Ferris, Mollie ^a   Quan, Samuel ^a   Kaplan, Belle S ^a,b   Molodecky, Natalie ^a,b   Ball, Chad G ^b   Chernoff, Greg W ^b   Bhala, Nij ^c   Ghosh, Subrata ^a   Dixon, Elijah ^b   Ng, Siew ^d   Kaplan, Gilaad G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

appendicitis; incidence; mortality; population based; risk factors; systematic review; time trends

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAIWAN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; GLOBAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; EUROPE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 85015077871     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002188     Document Type: Article

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