Appendectomy versus antibiotic treatment for acute appendicitis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2021, Issue 9, 2021, Pages

  Doleman, Brett ^a   Fonnes, Siv ^b   Lund, Jon N ^a   Boyd Carson, Hannah ^a   Javanmard Emamghissi, Hannah ^c   Moug, Susan ^d   Hollyman, Marianne ^e   Tierney, Gillian ^f   Tou, Samson ^f   Williams, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADVERSE EVENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAL LEAVE; MORTALITY; OPEN SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT;

EID: 85118100960     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD015038     Document Type: Article

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