Prospective Observational Study on acute Appendicitis Worldwide (POSAW)

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Sartelli, Massimo ^a   Baiocchi, Gian L ^b   Di Saverio, Salomone ^c   Ferrara, Francesco ^d   Labricciosa, Francesco M ^e   Ansaloni, Luca ^f   Coccolini, Federico ^f   Vijayan, Deepak ^g   Abbas, Ashraf ^h   Abongwa, Hariscine K ⁱ   Agboola, John ^j   Ahmed, Adamu ^k   Akhmeteli, Lali ^l   Akkapulu, Nezih ^m   Akkucuk, Seckin ⁿ   Altintoprak, Fatih ^o   Andreiev, Aurelia L ^g   Anyfantakis, Dimitrios ^p   Atanasov, Boiko ^q   Bala, Miklosh ^r   Balalis, Dimitrios ^s   Baraket, Oussama ^t   Bellanova, Giovanni ^u   Beltran, Marcelo ^v   Melo, Renato Bessa ^w   Bini, Roberto ^x   Bouliaris, Konstantinos ^y   Brunelli, Daniele ^z   Castillo, Adrian ^aa   Catani, Marco ^ab   Che Jusoh, Asri ^ac   Chichom Mefire, Alain ^ad   Cocorullo, Gianfranco ^ae   Coimbra, Raul ^af   Colak, Elif ^ag   Costa, Silvia ^ah   Das, Koray ^ai   Delibegovic, Samir ^aj   Demetrashvili, Zaza ^ak   Di Carlo, Isidoro ^al   Kiseleva, Nadezda ^am   El Zalabany, Tamer ^an   Faro, Mario ^ao   Ferreira, Margarida ^ap   Fraga, Gustavo P ^aq   Gachabayov, Mahir ^ar   Ghnnam, Wagih M ^as   Giménez Maurel, Teresa ^at   Gkiokas, Georgios ^au   Gomes, Carlos A ^av   Griffiths, Ewen ^g   Guner, Ali ^aw   Gupta, Sanjay ^ax   Hecker, Andreas ^ay   Hirano, Elcio S ^aq   Hodonou, Adrien ^az   Hutan, Martin ^ba   Ioannidis, Orestis ^bb,bc   Isik, Arda ^bd   Ivakhov, Georgy ^be   Jain, Sumita ^bf   Jokubauskas, Mantas ^bg   Karamarkovic, Aleksandar ^bh   Kauhanen, Saila ^bi   Kaushik, Robin ^ax   Kavalakat, Alfie ^bj   Kenig, Jakub ^bk   Khokha, Vladimir ^bl   Khor, Desmond ^bm   Kim, Dennis ^aa   Kim, Jae I ^bn   Kong, Victor ^bo   Lasithiotakis, Konstantinos ^bp   Leão, Pedro ^bq   Leon, Miguel ^br   Litvin, Andrey ^bs   Lohsiriwat, Varut ^bt   López Tomassetti Fernandez, Eudaldo ^bu   Lostoridis, Eftychios ^bv   Maciel, James ^aa   Major, Piotr ^bk   Dimova, Ana ^bw   Manatakis, Dimitrios ^bx   Marinis, Athanasio ^by   Martinez Perez, Aleix ^bz   Marwah, Sanjay ^ca   McFarlane, Michael ^cb,cc   Mesina, Cristian ^cd   Pȩdziwiatr, Michał ^ce,ce   Michalopoulos, Nickos ^cf   Misiakos, Evangelos ^cg   Mohamedahmed, Ali ^ch   Moldovanu, Radu ^ci   Montori, Giulia ^f   Mysore Narayana, Raghuveer ^cj   Negoi, Ionut ^ck   Nikolopoulos, Ioannis ^cl   Novelli, Giuseppe ^cm   Novikovs, Viktors ^am   Olaoye, Iyiade ^cn   Omari, Abdelkarim ^co   Ordoñez, Carlos A ^cp   Ouadii, Mouaqit ^cq   Ozkan, Zeynep ^cr   Pal, Ajay ^cs   Palini, Gian M ^cm   Partecke, Lars I ^ct   Pata, Francesco ^cu   Pereira Júnior, Gerson A ^cv   Pintar, Tadeja ^cw   Pisarska, Magdalena ^ce   Ploneda Valencia, Cesar F ^cx   Pouggouras, Konstantinos ^bv   Prabhu, Vinod ^cy   Ramakrishnapillai, Padmakumar ^cz   Regimbeau, Jean Marc ^da   Reitz, Marianne ^db   Rios Cruz, Daniel ^dc   Saar, Sten ^dd   Sakakushev, Boris ^de   Seretis, Charalampos ^df   Sazhin, Alexander ^be   Shelat, Vishal ^dg   Skrovina, Matej ^dh   Smirnov, Dmitry ^di   Spyropoulos, Charalampos ^bx   Strzałka, Marcin ^ce   Talving, Peep ^dd   Teixeira Gonsaga, Ricardo A ^dj   Theobald, George ^g   Tomadze, Gia ^dk   Torba, Myftar ^dl   Tranà, Cristian ^a   Ulrych, Jan ^dm   Uzunoğlu, Mustafa Y ⁿ   Vasilescu, Alin ^dn   Occhionorelli, Savino ^do   Venara, Aurélien ^dp   Vereczkei, Andras ^dq   Vettoretto, Nereo ^dr   Vlad, Nutu ^dn   Walȩdziak, Maciej ^ds   Yilmaz, Tonguç U ^dt   Yuan, Kuo Ching ^du   Yunfeng, Cui ^dv   Zilinskas, Justas ^bg   Grelpois, Gérard ^da   Catena, Fausto ^h   more..

^a Macerata Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d SAN CARLO BORROMEO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVPM   (Italy)

^f BUFALINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h MANSOURA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

ⁱ Maggiore Hospital   (Italy)

^j KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^k AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^l Tbilisi First Hospital   (Georgia)

^m BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁿ MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^o SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^p Primary Health Care Center of Kissamos   (Greece)

^q MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^r HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^s G Papanikolaou Research Centre   (Greece)

^t Hospital Habib Bouguefa de Bizerte   (Tunisia)

^u SS Annunziata Hospital   (Italy)

^v Hospital de La Serena   (Chile)

^w Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João   (Portugal)

^x MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^y GENERAL HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^z Neurology Unit USL Umbria 1 Città di Castello Hospital   (Italy)

^aa HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ab SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^ac Kuala Krai Hospital   (Malaysia)

^ad Regional Hospital   (Cameroon)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^af UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ag SAMSUN TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^ah CENTRO HOSPITALAR DE VILA NOVA DE GAIA ESPINHO   (Portugal)

^ai Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^aj UNIVERSITY CLINICAL CENTER TUZLA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^ak Institute Ltd Academician N Kipshidze Central University Clinic   (Georgia)

^al HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^am RIGA EAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Latvia)

^an BAHRAIN DEFENCE FORCE HOSPITAL   (Bahrain)

^ao FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DO ABC   (Brazil)

^ap HOSPITAL GARCIA DE ORTA   (Portugal)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^ar Vladimir City Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine   (Russian Federation)

^as MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^at HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^au UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^av Hospital Therezinha de Jesus   (Brazil)

^aw KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^ax GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^ay UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^az Chirurgie   (Benin)

^ba Surgical Department   (Austria)

^bb ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^bc General Hospital George Papanikoalou   (Greece)

^bd ERZINCAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^be Clinical Hospital #1   (Russian Federation)

^bf SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^bg LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^bh UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^bi TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^bj Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute   (India)

^bk JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^bl Department of Emergency Surgery   (Belarus)

^bm LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^bn Inje University   (South Korea)

^bo EDENDALE HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^bp York NHS teaching Hospital Trust   (United Kingdom)

^bq HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

^br HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN JIMÉNEZ DÍAZ   (Spain)

^bs Inst of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy   (Russian Federation)

^bt MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^bu HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^bv Kavala General Hospital   (Greece)

^bw KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^bx IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^by Tzaneio General State Hospital   (Greece)

^bz HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^ca POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^cb UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^cc UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^cd Emergency Hospital of Craiova   (Romania)

^ce UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

^cf AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^cg NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^ch Khartoum Teaching Hospital   (Sudan)

^ci St Mary Clinic   (France)

^cj K R Hospital Complex   (India)

^ck University Emergency Hospital Bucharest   (Romania)

^cl LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^cm Infermi Hospital   (Italy)

^cn UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^co KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Jordan)

^cp FUNDACIÓN VALLE DEL LILI   (Colombia)

^cq SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^cr Elazig Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^cs KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^ct University Hospital   (Germany)

^cu Sant'Antonio Abate Hospital   (Italy)

^cv Clinics Hospital   (Brazil)

^cw UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^cx HOSPITAL CIVIL DE GUADALAJARA FRAY ANTONIO ALCALDE   (Mexico)

^cy Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College and Hospital   (India)

^cz Department of Pediatrics   (India)

^da AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^db Hospital Dr José de Carvalho Florence   (Brazil)

^dc Hospital General Regional 1 IMSS   (Mexico)

^dd North Estonia Medical Centre   (Estonia)

^de UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ST GEORGE   (Bulgaria)

^df RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^dg TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^dh Hospital and Oncological Centre Novy Jicin   (Czech Republic)

^di Clinical Hospital at Chelyabinsk Station OJSC Russian Railways   (Russian Federation)

^dj Hospital Escola Padre Albino   (Brazil)

^dk TBILISI STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^dl UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CENTER MOTHER TERESA   (Albania)

^dm CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^dn GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^do S Anna Teaching Hospital   (Italy)

^dp ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^dq UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^dr Surgery   (Italy)

^ds MILITARY INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (Poland)

^dt KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^du CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^dv TIANJIN NANKAI HOSPITAL   (China)

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Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Antibiotics; Diagnosis; Management; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85045390535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13017-018-0179-0     Document Type: Article

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