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Acute appendicitis: modern understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

Acute appendicitis: modern understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

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Acute appendicitis: modern understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

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Full title

Acute appendicitis: modern understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

Publisher

England: Elsevier Ltd

Journal title

The Lancet (British edition), 2015-09, Vol.386 (10000), p.1278-1287

Language

English

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Publisher

England: Elsevier Ltd

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Contents

Summary Acute appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal emergencies worldwide. The cause remains poorly understood, with few advances in the past few decades. To obtain a confident preoperative diagnosis is still a challenge, since the possibility of appendicitis must be entertained in any patient presenting with an acute abdomen. Although b...

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Acute appendicitis: modern understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1755539985

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1755539985

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ISSN

0140-6736

E-ISSN

1474-547X

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00275-5

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