CHRONIC AMOEBIASIS AND CHRONIC APPENDICITIS
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Chronic Appendicitis
A STUDY of the literature suggests that few authorities are in agreement about the entity "chronic appendicitis" and the way in which it manifests itself. A number of authors deny that it exists. Alvarez (1940), after a review of 385 patients who had been subjected to appendicectomy for non-acute symptoms, concluded that "chronic appendicitis is the rarest of intra-abdominal diseases." McClure ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1935
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.3896.452