Can we improve diagnosis of acute appendicitis?
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منابع مشابه
The Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
are for India, no man can tell, but despite the contention that vegetarian races are less liable to the disease than those races which eat large quantities of meat, there is no surgeon in India, who would fail to bear witness to the multitude of tragedies for which this disease is responsible. We are often told that appendicitis is a disease of modern times?more accurately a disease relatively ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.321.7266.907