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Appendectomy

Known as: appendicectomy, Appendectomies, appendectomy procedure 
Surgery to remove the appendix (small finger-shaped pouch at the end of the first part of the large intestine).
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is among the more common surgical procedures in gynecology. The aim of this study was to calculate… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Objective  The traditional management of appendiceal mass is initial conservative treatment followed by interval appendicectomy… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
The frequency of computed tomography (CT) ordered by emergency department physicians at our facility was noted to sharply… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
OBJECTIVE To identify systematic errors in surgeons' estimations of the importance of diagnostic variables in the decision to… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Prophylactic metronidazole was compared with no treatment in a randomly allocated study of patients undergoing appendicectomy. A… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
A series of 102 patients with presumptive acute appendicitis entered a prospective, randomized, clinical trial of intrarectal… 
Review
1965
Review
1965
A recent survey (Coppen and Kessel, 1963) of a random sample of 500 women from the general population investigated the prevalence…