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Appendectomy
Known as:
appendicectomy
, Appendectomies
, appendectomy procedure
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Surgery to remove the appendix (small finger-shaped pouch at the end of the first part of the large intestine).
National Institutes of Health
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12 relations
Abdominal Cavity
Ablation
Educational aspects
ileocolonic region
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Broader (3)
Appendix
Excision
appendix operation
Narrower (2)
incidental appendectomy
laparoscopic appendectomy
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Regional differences in the use of hysterectomy.
Klaus Friese
Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
2011
Corpus ID: 47550702
BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is among the more common surgical procedures in gynecology. The aim of this study was to calculate…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Routine interval appendectomy is unnecessary after conservative treatment of appendiceal mass
A. Tekin
,
H. C. Kurtoğlu
,
İ. Can
,
S. Öztan
Colorectal Disease
2008
Corpus ID: 37936963
Objective The traditional management of appendiceal mass is initial conservative treatment followed by interval appendicectomy…
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Review
2001
Review
2001
Influence of Preoperative Computed Tomography on Patients Undergoing Appendectomy
Gregory P. Mcdonald
,
Derek P. Pendarvis
,
Robert J. Wilmoth
,
B. Daley
The American surgeon
2001
Corpus ID: 43442134
The frequency of computed tomography (CT) ordered by emergency department physicians at our facility was noted to sharply…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Why does the clinical diagnosis fail in suspected appendicitis?
Roland Andersson
,
Anders Hugander
,
+4 authors
Gunnar Olaison
The European journal of surgery = Acta chirurgica
2000
Corpus ID: 28033874
OBJECTIVE To identify systematic errors in surgeons' estimations of the importance of diagnostic variables in the decision to…
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Review
1993
Review
1993
Surgical management of cecal diverticulitis.
R. Harada
,
T. J. Whelan
American Journal of Surgery
1993
Corpus ID: 29818674
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Prophylactic metronidazole in appendicectomy: A controlled trial
T. Bates
,
V. L. Touquet
,
M. Tutton
,
S. Mahmoud
,
J. Reuther
British Journal of Surgery
1980
Corpus ID: 41062781
Prophylactic metronidazole was compared with no treatment in a randomly allocated study of patients undergoing appendicectomy. A…
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Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Intrarectal metronidazole in the prevention of anaerobic infections after emergency appendicectomy: A controlled clinical trial
J. Rodgers
,
D. Ross
,
W. Mcnaught
,
G. Gillespie
British Journal of Surgery
1979
Corpus ID: 34108538
A series of 102 patients with presumptive acute appendicitis entered a prospective, randomized, clinical trial of intrarectal…
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
The hospital care of patients undergoing hysterectomy: an analysis of 12,026 patients from the Professional Activity Study.
William J. Ledger
,
Margaret A. Child
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1973
Corpus ID: 39895279
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Progressive synergistic bacterial gangrene arising from abscesses of the vulva and Bartholin's gland duct.
D. Roberts
,
L. Hester
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1972
Corpus ID: 27841359
Review
1965
Review
1965
The Prevalence of Menstrual Disorders in Psychiatric Patients
A. Coppen
British Journal of Psychiatry
1965
Corpus ID: 40132683
A recent survey (Coppen and Kessel, 1963) of a random sample of 500 women from the general population investigated the prevalence…
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