The value of routine histopathological examination of appendicectomy specimens
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The value of routine histopathological examination of appendicectomy specimens
BACKGROUND Appendicectomy specimens removed from patients with suspected acute appendicitis often appear macroscopically normal but histopathological analysis of these cases may reveal a more sinister underlying pathology. We evaluated histopathological reports of 1225 appendicectomy specimens at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) over the past three years. METHODS Histopathol...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Surgery
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-2482
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-7-17